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Mitch Pronschinske02/29/12
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DZone Meetup Strikes Sofia, Bulgaria!

After 2 hugely successful DZone VIP meetups in Cary, NC (USA) and Colombo, Sri Lanka, a third meetup concluded last month in Sofia, Bulgaria - organized by one of DZone's team members, Jordan Jambazov. See pics and user reflections on the meetup

Mitch Pronschinske02/12/12
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How to Scale a Web App 1,000x in 3 Days

William Hertling, a Science Fiction writer in his spare time, shared an wild experience on his blog about how in his day job (at HP) he was approached Monday afternoon and told he had to scale a web app up to handle about 10k simultaneous users by Thursday morning. Some great lessons for those of you who need to be prepared for this situation.

Mitch Pronschinske02/07/12
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Amon: Lightweight, Open Source App and Server Monitoring

Amon is an open source tool that can run on the smallest VPS you have. If you don't trust similar cloud solutions (some of which are not free) and you want to be in full control of your logs and performance history, then Amon is probably worth a look, especially for you DevOps folks. It gives you logging, error tracking, and server monitoring all in one place.

Mitch Pronschinske02/01/12
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Lucene Revolution 2012 – Call for Participation now open!

Mark your calendars today! The largest worldwide conference dedicated to Lucene and Solr will take place in Boston May 7-10.

Mitch Pronschinske01/26/12
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Tracking Down 'DevOps' System Management Tools

One of the most bewildering things about the DevOps community is all of the small libraries and obscure open source tools that are mentioned by various practitioners.  That's why leaders like Patrick Dubois have made entire series of articles explaining...

Mitch Pronschinske01/26/12
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Solr at Etsy

Search at Etsy poses significant challenges. Our marketplace is filled with millions of unique, short-lived items and people trying to find them over 10...

Mitch Pronschinske01/25/12
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Recommended Tools for Testing Puppet Code

Since modifying Puppet manifiests, a lot of errors can... manifest :)    So Puppet Labs was kind enough to put together a small post on verifying your Puppet manifests for infrastructure automation with a nice list and description of a few syntax checking...

Mitch Pronschinske01/23/12
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Sh*t Project Managers Say

Just a few things you may hear from your everyday project manager...

Mitch Pronschinske01/18/12
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Using Solr Cloud, For Real!

URL:  http://java.dzone.com/videos/using-solr-cloud-real Large Thumbnail:  Loggly.png

Mitch Pronschinske01/18/12
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Hack Neo4j on Heroku for Fun and Profit

URL:  http://cloud.dzone.com/articles/neo4j-blog-issues-heroku Large Thumbnail:  neo4jheroku_logo copy_1.jpg

Mitch Pronschinske01/18/12
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How They Did It: Cut the Rope in HTML5

URL:  http://css.dzone.com/articles/how-they-did-it-html5-cut-rope Large Thumbnail:  Screen shot 2012-01-18 at 11.15.41 AM.png ...

Mitch Pronschinske01/18/12
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Amazon's DynamoDB Returns as a Managed, Hosted NoSQL Service

DynamoDB is back.  This was the word today out of Amazon sending shockwaves through the development world.  If the days of cheap cloud-based NoSQL databases weren't here already, they certainly are now.  We expect this announcement to have serious...

Mitch Pronschinske01/17/12
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Functional Programming with Python

URL:  http://css.dzone.com/articles/functional-programming-python-0 Large Thumbnail:  Harness_the_power_of_Python.jpg

Mitch Pronschinske01/17/12
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Maven: Great Idea, Poor Implementation

URL:  http://java.dzone.com/news/maven-great-idea-poor?mz=38541-devops Large Thumbnail:  Screen shot 2012-01-17 at 3.31.17 PM.png ...

Mitch Pronschinske01/12/12
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'The Developer World Has Serious Issues With Diversity' -Martin Fowler

Although it's easy to become accustomed to it, it's pretty obvious the software development world has some serious issues in diversity. By this I mean that we have some notable differences in proportions of people compared to the general population. One...