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Docker – Linux Application Environment Virtualization

Virtualized Greek

One of the readers of the blog Lennie pointed out this YouTube video of an eBay engineer explaining how they are leveraging Docker for building portable applications in Linux environments. Docker tackles one of the challenges faced in building applications in Linux environments. as it is in Linux environments.

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The Browser as an application platform : spf13.com

SPF13

The Browser as an application platform. For the first time ever, the application platform. The browser once, a simple tool for fetching and rendering content is now the most important application platform in the world. t matter and every application would be written in java. SproutCore: JavaScript Applications.

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Technology Short Take 178

Scott Lowe

Operating Systems/Applications I’m in agreement with Simon Willison and others on the use of “slop” to describe the artificially generated content that is increasingly polluting search results. Jaiden Riordan takes readers on a journey of running Ultramarine Linux on quite a wide spectrum of computing hardware.

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IDF 2013: Keynote, Day 2

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the day 2 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 in San Francisco. This leads into a demonstration of using the Intel XDK (which stands for “cross-platform development kit”) to build a custom application that runs across multiple platforms. IDF 2013: Keynote, Day 2. IDF 2013 Keynote, Day 1.

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OpenStack Summit 2013: OpenStack Back to the Enterprise, Keep Calm and Boldly Go On

Scott Lowe

Florian makes the “dreaded Linux-OpenStack comparison,” combining it with models and charts from Moore’s “Crossing the Chasm.” ” Florian posits that a key adoption point is that the underlying platform—be it Linux or OpenStack—must “become irrelevant.”

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“Spark has the potential to be as transformational in the computing landscape as the emergence of Linux…” – Interview with Levyx’s Reza Sadri

Dataconomy

Reza Sadri is the CEO of Levyx, the creators of high-performance processing technology for big-data applications. Prior to Levyx, Sadri was the CTO for software at sTec, which was acquired by Western Digital Corporation in 2013. What is the potential of Spark? How far is the market from realizing.

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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups

CTOvision

This makes it mandatory for virtually every software service and application owned by the government to be created through open source software to ensure that every government project guarantees efficiency, reliability and transparency of the services at a cost that is highly affordable.