Ralph Schwaninger

18th March 2013 BraveNewTalent in Media, Social Media, Digital Media, Topic Mentor

12th March 2013 Aaron Kato in Bravenewtalent

11th March 2013 Expedia, Inc. in Nosql, Sql, Data Warehousing, Big Data, NoDBA

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  NoDBA

  Martin Fowler database · noSQL · evolutionary design tags: In many organizations, it's expected that any persistent data will be stored in relational databases that are managed by a central database management group. There are various reasons for such central control, usually centered around using I­n­t­e­g­r­a­t­i­o­n­D­a­t­a­b­a­s­e­s­.

7th March 2013 Ralph Schwaninger in Learning, University, Education, Mentoring, School

• Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud | Video on TED.com

  Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other -- using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Hear his inspiring vision for Self Organized Learning Environments (SOLE) , and learn more at tedprize.org .

6th March 2013 Ralph Schwaninger in Chef, Orchestration, It Infrastructure

• What's New in Chef 11 - Chef Docs

  Changes for Data Bag Encryption In Chef 10.x, objects in encrypted data bag items are serialized to YAML before being encrypted. Unfortunately, discrepancies between YAML engines in different versions of Ruby (in particular, 1.8.7 and 1.9.3) may cause silent corruption of serialized data when decrypting the data bag (the version stored on the Chef Server is untouched and can be correctly deserialized with the same Ruby version that was used to create it, however).

4th March 2013 Ina Stanciu

20th February 2013 Markus Kobler in Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Ec2, Engineering

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  Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

  James Hamilton On a rainy Monday in August 2011, a 10-million-watt transformer exploded in northern Virginia, sending an enormous voltage spike across the power grid. The surge hit an Amazon data center in Ashburn, Virginia, knocking out the facility's main source of power, and about 15 minutes later, James Hamilton just happened to pull into the parking lot.

19th February 2013 Ralph Schwaninger in Open-source, Cloud Computing, Eucalyptus

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  Eucalyptus: We'll Be More Open Than Other Open Clouds " Data Center Knowledge

  Cloud software specialist Eucalyptus sees pushing boundaries of open clouds as an opportunity. This philosophy is driving changes at the company, with a sharper focus on its "open" roots from its origins in academia. Eucalyptus has open sourced its courseware and training, making all those materials available for free.

18th February 2013 Ralph Schwaninger in Github, Puppet, Mac Os X

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  Introducing Boxen · GitHub

  Today we're proud to open source Boxen, our tool for automating and managing Macs at GitHub. Boxen started nearly a year ago as a project called "The Setup" - a pipe dream to let anyone at GitHub run GitHub.com on their development machine with a single command.