Setting up a Hadoop development environment

Hadoop is a platform for performing distributed computing. That's easy enough to understand, right? There are some add-ons for things such as distributed file storage and distributed database access, but at the heart of it, Hadoop is a processing platform that partitions the work across multiple machines in a cluster.
Read this post for setting it up.

LiquidTest for Selenium released

JadeLiquid is proud to announce the addition of native Selenium support in LiquidTest 3.0, the Web Application Testing tool. LiquidTest is the first tool to support the Selenium specification outside the core Selenium implementation. With this clean-room Selenium implementation LiquidTest nowprovides a robust Recording and Replay engine for ... 

Translate SQL to MongoDB MapReduce :: myNoSQL

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Mikael Ronstrom: MySQL Cluster - NoSQL access with some SQL

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Developing Community Management Metrics and Tools for Mozilla

Interesting post from alves.ca
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The NewSQL Movement - ReadWriteCloud

"This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about how IBM helped one client solved its server sprawl problems."

The NewSQL Movement - ReadWriteCloud

Google Page Speed Goes Online and Mobile

Google has made Page Speed available online, enhancing it for analyzing web pages targeted at smartphones.
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