• 2016 Dev Predictions, Part 2: Cognitive Computing, IoT, Cloud, More

    John talks to more analysts in his exploration of trends such as mobile, cloud, DevOps, IoT, microservices, the API economy, cognitive computing, virtual reality and more that are all reshaping organizations in fundamental ways, with developers leading the way.

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    Q&A: On Hadoop's 10th Birthday, 10 Questions for One Who Was There

    10 years ago today the first Hadoop cluster was put into production at Yahoo. We asked Raymie Stata, who actually hired Hadoop co-creator Doug Cutting into Yahoo, to look back at the history of the game-changing Big Data technology, forecast where it's going and provide advice for developers looking to master it.

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    Big Data Product Watch 1/28/16: Top Hadoop Distros, Free Training, Cloud Deployment and More

    Here's a roundup of recent news from Cloudera, MapR, VoltDB and others, including an analyst's rankings of the top Hadoop distributions, expanded free Hadoop training, new products and more.

  • 5 Top Open Source Contributions for React Native (and What's Needed)

    Here's a look at some of the top React Native-related projects contributed by the open source community on GitHub for new-age native iOS and Android app development, along with a list of areas where the core team working on the project at Facebook would like to see more work done.

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    8 Critical Java Security Holes Fixed by Quarterly Patch

    Oracle's latest Critical Patch Update includes fixes for eight Java security holes, three of which were rated critical, earning Common Vulnerability Scoring Standard scores of 10.0.

  • Declining Interest in Java EE Doesn't Mean Java Is in Decline

    "If you're just watching the sexy stuff -- the cloud, IoT, microarchitectures, containers -- you could miss that Java and .NET are the only enterprise platforms with real breadth and depth today," says Gartner analyst Mark Driver.

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    JBoss EAP 7 Beta Now Available

    Red Hat announced the availability of the first beta build of the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP), addressing new enterprise interest in containers and microservices.

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    Open Source Tech Dominates Top Paying Skills

    Cloud and Big Data tech skills still pay off the most, according to the latest salary survey from careers site Dice.com, with open source technologies dominating the 2015 list.

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    So You Want To Become a Data Scientist?

    So you want to become a data scientist? And why wouldn't you? Careers site Glassdoor just named it the "best job in America" for 2016. So we decided to talk to a real-life data scientist to find out what the job's all about and how to become one.

  • 2016 Dev Predictions, Part 1: DevOps, APIs, Microservices, More

    John checks in with analysts who are paid to track development trends to find out what's in store for the new year. One hint: It's looking mighty good for JavaScript jocks who know how to build microservices architectures and work with public cloud services.

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    Telerik Dev Tool Claims First AngularJS 2 UI Support

    The newest release of the Telerik DevCraft development suite is the first in the dev tooling market to feature support for building UIs on top of AngularJS 2 JavaScript-based applications, claims its parent company, Progress Software.

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    Google's First Apache Contribution? Dataflow, for Big Data Analytics

    Google has teamed up with several other companies to submit its open sourced Dataflow technology to the Apache Software Foundation as an incubator project, a first for the search giant.

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    Mobile Dev Success: All About that MBaaS

    New reports from mobile app development organizations show how Mobile Back-end-as-a-Service is crucial to enterprise mobility success, especially when using rapid application development or low-code tools.

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    Hadoop Survey Shows Spark Coming of Age in 2016

    Apache Spark, which has been shaking up the Apache Hadoop ecosystem for a couple years now, will come of age this year, moving from a talking point into enterprise deployment, according to a new Hadoop survey from Syncsort.

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    Open Source Devs Challenge GitHub on Support Issues

    A large group of GitHub-using developers is calling for changes to the open source code repository, changes they can't enact on their own because GitHub itself isn't open source.

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    MapR Offers Free Big Data Test Drives on Amazon Cloud

    Test drives of various Big Data technologies are now available on the Amazon cloud in a new program launched by MapR Technologies to help enterprises test the analytics waters with integrated third-party solutions.

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    HackerRank: Solve a Coding Challenge, Get a Job Interview

    HackerRank has released a new mobile app that lets developers solve a coding challenge to apply for a job, with the guarantee of a response from prospective employers within five days.

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    Monitoring Service Adds Mobile App Performance Management

    Site24x7 announced it has added mobile Application Performance Management functionality to its cloud monitoring service for DevOps and IT operations, providing real-time performance insights for native Android and iOS apps.

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    Survey: Open Source Tools Preferred for Mobile Development

    A new survey published by Red Hat Inc., seeking to measure the maturity of enterprise mobility efforts, reveals that a large majority of mobile developers prefer using open source software.

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    New JavaScript-based Web Language Challenges React

    "If Ruby and React had an indentation-based lovechild, what would it look like?" asks Norwegian developer Sindre Aarsaether, who answers his own question by introducing the new Web language, Imba.