January 2015 Blog Posts (6)

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Phone Software Entrepreneurs? Under 30 Forbes List

Forbes published an under 30 tech list featuring entrepreneurs who've made it big. Read about it …

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Added by Michael Levin on January 27, 2015 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Getting Started With Android

Interested in Android programming? Here's a nice, recent article at Lifehacker outlining good, free resources to get you going. http://lifehacker.com/i-want-to-write-android-apps-where-do-i-start-1643818268 ;

Added by Michael Levin on January 22, 2015 at 11:05am — No Comments

Pay What You Want: Back-End Developer Course Bundle

Pay What You Want: Back-End Developer Course Bundle…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 20, 2015 at 10:23am — No Comments

Speak at OSCON!

Here's a message from O'Relly about OSCON 2015:

We're deep into planning OSCON 2015 and we've got some exciting news: OSCON is changing. We're no longer beating the drum and…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 9, 2015 at 11:47am — No Comments

O'Reilly Solid Conference CFP closes 1/20!

The O'Reilly Solid conference is in San Diego in June and it's all about the merging of HW/SW for the IoT. Want to get involved? The Call for Papers is open and there are loads of benefits in giving a presentation for an O'Reilly conference., Take it from me! It's a great thing to do for the community and you learn a ton…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 9, 2015 at 9:30am — No Comments

How to Use SQL, Hadoop, Drill, REST, JSON, NoSQL, and HBase in a Simple REST Client

Our friend Carol just published this article.

SQL will become one of the most prolific use cases in the Hadoop ecosystem, according to Forrester Research. Apache Drill is an open source SQL query engine for big data exploration. REST services and clients have emerged as popular technologies on the Internet. Apache HBase is a hugely popular Hadoop NoSQL…

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Added by Michael Levin on January 7, 2015 at 1:45pm — No Comments

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Microsoft Launches Azure Copilot Migration Agent to Accelerate Cloud Migration Planning

Microsoft has launched the Azure Copilot Migration Agent, an AI assistant built into the Azure portal that automates migration planning, agentless VMware discovery, and landing zone creation. Despite being billed as generally available, the agent is in public preview and cannot execute migrations. Replication and cutover remain manual tasks in Azure Migrate.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

ProxySQL Introduces Multi-Tier Release Strategy With Stable, Innovative, and AI Tracks

ProxySQL 3.0.6 was recently released, along with a new multi-tier release strategy. The Stable Tier focuses on reliability and production use, the Innovative Tier introduces newer features earlier, and the AI/MCP Tier explores future capabilities, including AI integrations.

By Renato Losio

Teleport Report Finds Over-Privileged AI Systems Linked to Fourfold Rise in Security Incidents

Enterprises that grant excessive access permissions to AI systems experience 4.5 times as many security incidents as those that do not, according to The 2026 State of AI in Enterprise Infrastructure Security, a report published by infrastructure identity company Teleport. The study found that identity management hasn't kept up with AI adoption in production systems.

By Matt Saunders

Discord Engineers Add Distributed Tracing to Elixir's Actor Model Without Performance Penalty

Discord engineering detailed how they added distributed tracing to Elixir's actor model. Their custom Transport library wraps messages with trace context and uses dynamic sampling to handle million-user fanouts. CPU optimizations included skipping unsampled traces and filtering context before deserialization, recovering 10+ percentage points of overhead.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

HashiCorp Vault 1.21 Brings SPIFFE Authentication, Granular Secret Recovery, and More

HashiCorp has released Vault 1.21. This version introduces native SPIFFE authentication for non-human workloads, expands the granular secret recovery model introduced in Vault 1.20, and adds KV v2 secret attribution, MFA TOTP self-enrollment, a Vault Secrets Operator CSI driver that mounts secrets directly into pods without persisting them in etcd, and more.

By Diogo Carleto

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