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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

CTOvision

By Bob Gourley Note: we have been tracking Cloudant in our special reporting on Analytical Tools , Big Data Capabilities , and Cloud Computing. a privately held database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider that enables developers to easily and quickly create next generation mobile and web apps. . . – bg.

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The Ballad of Bart

The Daily WTF

Bart knew how to do everything from desktop support to software development to database administration to IT security. One day an entire metrics database suddenly became a bunch of null values, which is not very helpful for metrics. Bart threw a fit because the data he was working on was gone.

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SDLC Deployment Phase – A Step by Step Guide

Openxcell

Perform the Data Entry or Conversion. It makes sure that you are performing the data entry or the necessary conversion if required. Once all the comments and suggestions are obtained, they are submitted to the CTO and Governance for review implementation. Execute the Training Plan. Install the System. Engineering Department.

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Are You Agile Enough for Polyglot Programming?

CTOvision

It was spread across 3 data centers and 2000 nodes; it consumed 180 TB of data and supported 10,000 requests per second. Harper Reed , the CTO for the Obama re-election campaign , knew from the beginning he was resource constrained, so he bet big on the cloud. It was 100% cloud based and polyglot.

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Redesigning our Docs – Part 2 – Making Technical Content Readable for Everybody

Algolia

And some terms (relevance) need a full page , and required days of research and interviews with key Algolians , including our founder and CTO. For this page, each example was important to explain a different aspect of the same storyline, which was that formatting your data has many nuances and requires different choices.

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A foundational strategy pattern for analysis: MECE

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

That means making them directive toward work that someone will go and do, or providing the data that allows a decision-maker to decide the best course of action. It's not exhaustive: we left out testers, and other roles depending on your organization, such as release engineers, database administrators, project managers, and so on.

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Roles and Responsibilities

The Programmer's Paradox

Data Modeler, Data Architect For any system that is large, it will likely need to be connected with many other systems. To do this, there must be a ‘universal view’ of the data not just an application specific one. The system presents data, the user modifies it and then it is saved. It’s all about appearance.