John Allspaw on resilience engineering's role in web development and operations.
by Jenn Webb
| @JennWebb | 18 May 2011
Certain high risk industries — aviation, space travel,healthcare — use resilience engineering to investigate failures. Etsy vice president John Allspaw says the same concepts have a place in web engineering.
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From Chromebooks to Arduino to bots: Mike Loukides examines I/O's big themes.
by Mike Loukides
| @mikeloukides | 16 May 2011
Google I/O 2011 was marked by the Android Accessory Development Kit, the Chromebook vision and lots of robots. Mike Loukides examines the big I/O developments and their possible repercussions.
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Announcing the three prize winners of the O'Reilly writable API competition.
by Terry Jones
| @terrycojones | 13 May 2011
We ran a developer contest to see what folks could do with O'Reilly's new "writable" API. Today we're announcing the winners.
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Arduino is a building block for the world to come.
by Alasdair Allan
| @aallan | 13 May 2011
Every so often a piece of technology can become a lever that lets people move the world, just a little bit. The Arduino is one of those levers.
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Can Hudson and Jenkins get together now? Washington checks in on location. And why are you so stressed?
by James Turner
| @blackbearnh | 12 May 2011
Oracle casts another piece of Sun from their portfolio, Apple and Google defend themselves from big-brother accusations made by, um, Big Brother, and it turns out you probably have a pretty sweet job, after all.
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Acunu is taking a new approach to data storage. Here's what that means for developers.
by Audrey Watters
| @audreywatters | 12 May 2011
Acunu CEO Tim Moreton talks about how his company has redesigned the data stack from the ground up, and what the resulting speed boost might mean for big data developers.
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