The Daily WTF

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Watching the “x86 kids” struggle with managing growing storage needs gave him a sense of vindication, as the mainframe never had that problem. But as time wore on, the storage needs got harder to manage, and eventually the “x86 kids” rolled out a SAN. Storage needs grew, and more disks got crammed into the array. Like this?”.

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G2 Crowd Software

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Free and open-source database tools are typically more appealing to the everyday small business and app creator, so we’ve outlined some of the best ones, according to user reviews on G2 Crowd. Using reviews from real users, our list of free database tools is ordered by highest G2 Score as of November 20, 2017. Microsoft SQL.

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Netlify

AUGUST 30, 2021

Dropbox can backup files, but what about the metadata associated with the changes? In 2005 we reached the third generation of VCS with Git. With Git, you can try out an idea locally and push it to a remote server when it’s ready for review or deployment. Imagine if Apple lost the source code to iOS.

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CTOvision

JULY 9, 2014

Since the birth of Hadoop in 2005-06, the way we think about storing and processing information has evolved considerably. In the text below, I examine an on-premise Hadoop ecosystem as a general purpose Big Data solution in relation to alternative commercial purpose-built storage technologies (-e.g. By Jeremy Glesner.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 25, 2024

While we like to talk about how fast technology moves, internet time, and all that, in reality the last major new idea in software architecture was microservices, which dates to roughly 2015. We’re skeptical about things like job displacement, at least in technology. This has been a strange year. What will those changes be?

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ProdOps

AUGUST 25, 2019

William Raspberry It is no secret that Continuous Integration, and in most cases, Continuous Delivery (CI/CD in short)too are one of the most sought after development practices among technology-related companies nowadays. It is a Continuous Delivery system built on container technology and can either be hosted for free or used as a SaaS.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2006

Literally hundreds of Web sites and applications were launched this year and brought to our attention via the popular review sites like Michael Arrington's TechCrunch , Pete Cashmore's Mashable , and Emily Chang's eHub. Software of 2005 was ultimately read by hundreds of thousands of readers in over a dozen languages.

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