Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Big Data Appliance, an engineered system of hardware and software that incorporates Cloudera’s Distribution, Including Apache Hadoop with Cloudera Manager, plus an open source distribution of R. Big Data Appliance, which runs on Oracle Linux, also features Oracle NoSQL Database Community Edition and Oracle HotSpot Java Virtual Machine. In addition, Oracle simultaneously announced the availability of Oracle Big Data Connectors, a software product that helps customers easily integrate data stored in Hadoop and Oracle NoSQL Database with Oracle Database 11g. This system scales by connecting multiple racks together via an InfiniBand network.
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High praise comes for the new 700-page book "Java Performance" by Charlie Hunt and Binu John in a blog by Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, where he describes the tome as " ... a definitive guide to performance." The contents of "Java Performance" include such topics as performance goals, JVM monitoring and tuning, hotspot-detailed architecture and behavior, Java EE and application server performance and tuning, the blog reports. Four entire chapters are devoted to multitiered applications, web applications, web services and JPA and EJB performance, he writes.
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Charlie Hunt, JVM Performance Lead Engineer at Oracle and the lead author of the newly published Java Performance book, joins host Roger Brinkley on Episode 49 of Java Spotlight to discuss both Java performance and the book as well. Hunt's responsibilities at Oracle include improving the performance of the Java HotSpot VM and Java SE class libraries. He has also been involved in improving the performance of both GlassFish Server Open Source Edition and Oracle WebLogic Server. In his customary seat on the Java All Star Developer Panel during Episode 49 is Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate.
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Despite what you may have assumed, there is an alternative to Microsoft when it comes to enhancements for Windows, and these enhancements are free and olpen source, so why call Redmond. J. Peter Bruzzese a number of these offerings in his InforWorld article "15 Essential Open Source Tools for Windows Admins." Here's a list:
For Java Spotlight Episode 35 Host Roger Brinkley trots out the heavyweights in an interview with Vladimir Ivanov, HotSpot JVM Quality Engingeer; Ivan Krylov, Licensee Engineering; and Sergey Kuksenko, Java SE Performance Team on the JDK 7 Java Virtual Machine performance and quality. As usual, Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate, join the Java All Star Developer Panel.
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