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Database - Beginning with Cloud Database As A Service
Note: When we recently launched, we were thrilled to have SQL Guru Pinal Dave give Morpheus a spin. It turns out that he had a great experience, and as he is indeed an SQLAuthority, we thought we'd...
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Don't Fall Victim to One of These Common SQL Programming 'Gotchas'
 TL;DR: Even experienced SQL programmers can sometimes be thrown for an infinite loop -- or other code failure -- by one of the many pitfalls of the popular development platform. Get the upper hand by...
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The SQL Vulnerability Hackers Leverage to Steal Your IDs, Passwords, and More
[TL:DR] The theft of hundreds of millions of user IDs, passwords, and email addresses was made possible by a database programming technique called dynamic SQL, which makes it easy for hackers to use...
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Don't Drown Yourself With Big Data: Hadoop May Be Your Lifeline
   TL; DR: The tremendous growth predicted for the open-source Hadoop architecture for data analysis is driven by the mind-boggling increase in the amount of structured and unstructured data in...
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No "Buts" About It: The Cloud Is Transforming Your Company's Business Processes
TL;DR: As IT managers gain confidence in the reliability and security of cloud services, it becomes more difficult for them to ignore the cloud's many benefits for all their business's operations....
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How Database Failure Left Harry Potter and Thousands of Travelers Stranded...
 Daniel Radcliffe. Photograph: Perou/GuardianTL;DR As the US State Department coped with massive database failure, thousands of travelers (and one Harry Potter star) were prevented entry to the United...
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Why More Is Better with Database Management: The Multicloud Approach
 TL;DR: At one time, organizations planning their cloud strategy adopted an either-or approach: Either store and manage data on a secure private cloud, or opt for the database-as-a-service model of the...
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Can A Silicon Valley CTO Save Government Software From Itself?
 TL;DR: Following several high-profile development disasters, government IT departments have received a mandate to change their default app-development approach from the traditional top-down model to...
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Cloud Database Security, Farms and Restaurants: The Importance of Knowing...
 TL;DR: Securing your company's cloud-based assets starts by applying tried-and-true data-security practices modified to address the unique characteristics of virtual-network environments. Cloud...
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DevOps: The Slow Tsunami That's Transforming IT
TL;DR: Old divisions in IT departments between app development and operations are crashing to the ground as users demand more apps with more features, and right now! By combining agile-development...
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NoSQL Will Protect You From The Onslaught of Data Overload
TL;DR: As the amount of unstructured data being collected by organizations skyrockets, their existing databases come up short: they're too slow, too inflexible, and too expensive. What's needed is a...
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How Is Google Analytics So Damn Fast?
TL; DR: Google Analytics stores a massive amount of statistical data from web sites across the globe. Retrieving reports quickly from such a large amount of data requires Google to use a custom...
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The DoD Plods Toward 21st Century Databases And Software
TL; DR: The Department of Defense's slow, steady migration to public and private cloud architectures may be hastened by pressures at opposite ends of the spectrum. At one end are programs such as the...
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The Key to Distributed Database Performance: Scalability
TL;DR: The realities of modern corporate networks make the move to distributed database architectures inevitable. How do you leverage the stability and security of traditional relational database...
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Contain(er) Yourself: Separating Docker Hype from the Tech's Reality
TL;DR: Even jaded IT veterans are sitting up and taking notice of the potential benefits of Docker's microservice model of app development, deployment, and maintenance. By containerizing the entire...
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Could Database as a Service Be What Saves Microsoft's Bacon?
TL;DR: Among the Big Name software companies, Microsoft appears to be making the smoothest transition to a cloud-centric data universe. The early reviews of the company's Azure DocumentDB...
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The New Reality: Microservices Apply the Internet Model to App Development
TL;DR: As software becomes the force driving industries of all types and sizes, the nature of app development and management is changing fundamentally. Gone are the days of centralized control via...
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What Happened in the JP Morgan Data Breach?
TL;DR: JP Morgan was recently the latest large back to fall victim to a data breach that lost customer data. In spite of the company already having some very sophisticated security measures in place,...
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The eBay Secret to Database Scaling
TL;DR: eBay uses MongoDB to perform a number of tasks involving large amounts of data. Such projects include search suggestions, cloud management, storage of metadata, and the categorization of...
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Do Coders Deserve To Be Treated Like Royalty?
TL;DR: Development cycles continue to shrink. Companies have to adapt their processes or risk being left in their competitors' dust. Ensuring the software developers in your organization have what they...
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