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Managing Production Applications Book (Introduction)

This category contains a book that represents critical knowledge for any engineer working with the processes and groups, which are engaged in the process of delivering business and software engineering goals required to design a production Web site. The problem with most existing books on the topic is they do not address how engineers collaborate with business and development to ... Read More...

Velocity 2010: Mobile Web Performance

Velocity 2010, Santa Clara, CA - Maximilio Firtman's presentation on Mobile Web High Performance presented many useful insights into the intricacies of mobile Web performance and why it matters. Often times, mobile Web browsers are slow, and as mobile hardware platforms are extremely varied, as well as their browsers. The presentation started off with a state of the mobile Web ... Read More...

Google Speed Tracer with Jaime Yap

Jaime Yap is a developer for the Google Speed Tracer team. Google Speed Tracer is a Google Chrome extension that will help you debug and find performance bottlenecks in your Web applications. Google uses the utility internally for debugging and finding perormance bottlenecks in commonly used applications such as Gmail, Google Maps, and AdWords that millions of people use ... Read More...

Inside Twitter Operations with John Adams

The Velocity Web Performance and Operations Conference is upon us in about one week. John Adams of Twitter operations spoke a bit about configuration management, processing and analyzing terabytes of log files with Hadoop, and distributed systems on a global scale. John Adams will be delivering a talk at this year's Velocity conference in San Jose, California titled, "In the ... Read More...

Xen Virtualization User Group in Los Angeles Announced Featuring Jeremy Fitzhardinge, Principal Engineer, Citrix/XenServer

What The Official Xen User Group in Los Angeles has been announced on the Xen.org Web site. It is to take place in a not-yet-disclosed location in Los Angeles, CA on July 30th, 2010. Stay tuned to Xen.org Blog and TheBitsource.com to get updated when we reveal the location. Who Jeremy Fitzhardinge, Principal Engineer, Citrix, will be our guest and presenter. This user group is brought ... Read More...

Velocity 2010: Web Browser Profiling with BrowserScope

Browser performance is one of the key components to achieving a fast Web browsing experience. Much of the rendering of a Web page is dependent on the engine inside of the browser, and has become an increasingly important focus in the world of Web performance. Lindsey Simon is Front-end Developer for Google's User experience team, and is one of the engineers pioneering the profiling ... Read More...

Securing Apache Web Servers with mod_security

You want to keep your server safe. From a security point of view running a Web servers with applications gives hackers many ways to attack your server. How can you protect your server from the hackers out there, and lazy coders who don't write secure code and then let your server be attacked at the web application level? When you start ... Read More...

Andrew Rubin, Android Inventor’s Stance on Microsoft Silverlight on the Android

When I asked Andrew Rubin if Android would ever support Microsoft Silverlight or the open source implementation of Silverlight, Moonlight, he responded as follows: Adobe put a lot of work into getting Flash to run on the Dalvik JVM. If Microsoft were to develop Silverlight to run on the Android then we would welcome it. - Andy Rubin, VP, Engineering (and Android Inventor), ... Read More...

Lars Rasmussen Discusses Philanthropic Use Cases of Google Wave; Education, Relief Efforts

[caption id="attachment_2132" align="alignnone" width="597" caption="with:public tag:haiti "][/caption] What are the philanthropic use cases for Wave? Lars Rasmussen: What really impressed me there was with the Haiti Earthquake. There was a lot of people that used Wave to coordinate the work they were doing for the relief in Haiti. I think they liked the real-time aspect of it; getting stuff together really fast, ... Read More...

Lars Rasmussen, Using Google Wave for Collaborative Software Development

Lars Rasmussen, one of the Lead Engineers who started Google Maps, and leading the Google Wave project, spoke with The Bitsource in this exclusive interview. [caption id="attachment_2125" align="alignnone" width="586" caption="Lars Rasmussen (left), and Google Wave Panel at Google I/O 2010 "][/caption] Please tell The Bitsource's developers a bit about yourself. Lars Rasmussen: Sure thing, I've worked for Google for about six years. I ... Read More...

Google I/O Hot Topics

The Bitsource is at Google IO covering some of the latest announcements. We've compiled a list for those unable to attend the conference so that they can stay on top of all the news happening now at Google I/O. Live Updates Follow our @thebitsource for live updates from the conference. Also follow @GoogleIO for other conference updates. Photo Stream Flickr Google IO Photo Stream Google I/O ... Read More...

Erlang Factory Director Francesco Cesarini: Erlang’s Strong Suits, Concurrency

Francesco Cesarini - is the founder and Technical Director of Erlang Solutions. He has used Erlang on a daily basis for almost 15 years, starting as an intern at Ericsson’s computer science laboratory, the birthplace of Erlang. He moved on to Ericsson’s Erlang training and consulting arm working on the first release of OTP, applying it to turnkey solutions and ... Read More...

Ulf Wiger CTO of Erlang Solutions on Erlang Programming

Ulf Wiger, CTO of Erlang Solutions Limited is one of the first commercial users of Erlang In 1996, he joined Ericcson and became Chief Designer of the AXD 301 development. At nearly 2 million lines of Erlang code, AXD 301 is the most complex system ever built in Erlang, and probably the most complex ... Read More...

Jason McCay on MongoDB as a Service

Jason McCay is a Developer and one of the Founding Members of CommonThread, an Internet consultancy focusing on Web applications development. McCay and CommonThread will be giving a talk at MongoSF about hosted database platforms, specifically, their hosted MongoDB platform called MongoHQ. At MongoSF, McCay will revealsome insights into hosting a database as a platform, the advantages over using a pre-configured ... Read More...

Managing Production Applications Book (Introduction)

Velocity 2010: Mobile Web Performance

Google Speed Tracer with Jaime Yap

Inside Twitter Operations with John Adams

Xen Virtualization User Group in Los Angeles Announced Featuring Jeremy Fitzhardinge, Principal Engineer, Citrix/XenServer

Velocity 2010: Web Browser Profiling with BrowserScope

Securing Apache Web Servers with mod_security

Andrew Rubin, Android Inventor’s Stance on Microsoft Silverlight on the Android

Lars Rasmussen Discusses Philanthropic Use Cases of Google Wave; Education, Relief Efforts

Lars Rasmussen, Using Google Wave for Collaborative Software Development

Google I/O Hot Topics

Erlang Factory Director Francesco Cesarini: Erlang’s Strong Suits, Concurrency

Ulf Wiger CTO of Erlang Solutions on Erlang Programming

Jason McCay on MongoDB as a Service

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Managing Production Applications Book (Introduction)

Velocity 2010: Mobile Web Performance

Google Speed Tracer with Jaime Yap

Inside Twitter Operations with John Adams

Xen Virtualization User Group in Los Angeles Announced Featuring Jeremy Fitzhardinge, Principal Engineer, Citrix/XenServer

Velocity 2010: Web Browser Profiling with BrowserScope

Securing Apache Web Servers with mod_security

Andrew Rubin, Android Inventor’s Stance on Microsoft Silverlight on the Android

Lars Rasmussen Discusses Philanthropic Use Cases of Google Wave; Education, Relief Efforts

Lars Rasmussen, Using Google Wave for Collaborative Software Development

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