Understanding What Big Data Can Deliver
It's easy to err by pushing data to fit a projected model. Insights come, however, from accepting the data's ability to depict what is going on, without imposing an a priori bias.
View ArticleDo All Roads Lead Back to SQL?
After distancing themselves from SQL, NoSQL products are moving towards transactional models as "NewSQL" gains popularity. What happened?
View ArticleApplying the Big Data Lambda Architecture
A look inside a Hadoop-based project that matches connections in social media by leveraging the highly scalable lambda architecture.
View ArticleMicrosoft Visual Studio 2013 Review
Many useful additions make this an attractive release, but writing Windows Store apps remains clumsy work.
View ArticleUsing the Microsoft C++ REST SDK
The new SDK enables you to stay in C++ when consuming REST services
View ArticleThe Best of 2013
The most popular articles of the year, sprinkled with a few pieces carefully chosen by the editors.
View ArticleThe Dangerous Art of Predicting Tech Directions
Predicting the future is a common rite as the new year unfolds. But thoughtful extrapolation of where events will lead is difficult and often subtle work. How do the pros do it? And what then can we...
View ArticleIBM Without Its Business Machines
Big Blue's sale of its low-end server business is a significant move that should not be underestimated.
View ArticleDeveloper Reading List
Java 8, JavaScript, Functional Programming, and Software Engineering
View ArticleJolt Awards: Mobile Development Tools
The best tools for the nuts-and-bolts of building mobile apps.
View ArticleJava 8 Arrives!
One of the biggest updates ever to a major language finally ships, delivering many new and very interesting features.
View Article2014 Developer Salary Survey
Our survey of more than 2,200 U.S. developers shows salaries in a well-paid field are nudging up as the economy picks up steam.
View ArticleHow Much Development and Test Infrastructure Capacity Do You Really Need?
With good metrics and queuing theory, it's possible to accurately compute your needs. Fulfilling the requirements, then becomes the tricky part.
View ArticleRedmond's Remarkable Reversal
A company that topped the list of obvious casualties in the post-PC era has thrived due to surprising changes to the way it does things. Most especially, how it works with developers.
View ArticleTooling Up for the Marriage of the Internet of Things, Big Data, and Cloud...
Finding tools that will bridge IoT, machine-to-machine, and big data is no simple task. But some integrated solutions are beginning to appear.
View ArticleGetting Back to Coding
Reducing tool complexity requires mercilessly applying YAGNI to your toolchain. Resist the siren songs of new, popular memes and the blandishments of vendors, and choose the tools that deliver only...
View ArticleAzure DocumentDB: Working with Microsoft's NoSQL Database in the Cloud
Coding for the new NoSQL JSON database service that supports SQL queries.
View ArticleWorking with Azure DocumentDB: SQL & NoSQL Together
Updating and deleting documents, creating queries, and managing query results in Microsoft's new NoSQL database-as-a-service.
View ArticleWhose Cloud Will You Use?
While the choices appear infinite, they are in fact narrowing quickly.
View ArticleC# and .NET's Sudden Ubiquity
Microsoft ports .NET to Linux and Macintosh and open-sources the entire stack.
View ArticleThe Long Death of Project Hosting Sites
Last month, Microsoft and Google bypassed their own code hosts to post major code projects on GitHub. The once-favored hosts have begun a long, familiar decline.
View ArticleJolt Awards 2015: Coding Tools
The best tools available for creating, testing, and debugging code.
View ArticleThriving Among the APIs
You're about to start work on designing and publishing your product's API. Now what?
View ArticleDr. Dobb's Archive
On this site is archived all the content from Dr. Dobb's that was published on the Web through December 31, 2014.
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