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Thoughts on Integration

In the last weeks I have heard the following sentence more often: "Everybody who has done a software project knows that integration and development isn’t easy". This statement of does not make sense to me. Seems like a lame excuse which implies that all software projects need to be off schedule and integration is hard when putting software together.Which is not the case I think. There are very successful projects around. And they also face the "integration problem".

So this statement does not need to be true when doing it right (my own opinion and experience though :-)). Especially with all the tools, books and information available. I think this is even right for highly distributed software projects where the partners a scattered around the world. Yes we can do it right 🙂

P.S. I know a lot of links in there, but worth to follow (this is seemless self promotion :-))

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Open Grid Forum 25 wrapup

The OGF homepage released an wrapup of the last event. Seems to be that the Cloud Interface API BoF session I co-chaired was a highlight. Just like the session "from Grid to Clouds" where I presented RESERVOIR. Afterall a great OGF event. The complete wrapup is here.

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Amazon Elastic MapReduce

Amazon introduced the new Amazon Elastic MapReduce service. It is based on Hadoop and still in beta, but still worth knowing about. Remember that Cloudera also offers supports for Hadoop ?

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Making python 5x faster

Google’s Python engineers have launched a new project called Unladen Swallow that seeks to improve the performance of the Python programming language. One of the project’s goals is to replace the Python virtual machine with an LLVM-based JIT.

Source: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/google-launches-project-to-boost-python-performance-by-5x.ars

http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/

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Redefining the 'I' in IDE

An great talk from Mik Kersten from Tasktop (You might know him from Mylyn) @ W-JAX conference – it is about productivity and topics surrounding it:

The video can be found here.

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