Romancing development: How to avoid feeling vulnerable with open source

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	Google’s new open-source PerfKit framework watches cloud application performance  Google’s latest foray into the open-source realm is a framework it’s calling “PerfKit,” which is designed to measure application performance in the cloud, the company announced Wednesday.The framework has two main components, according to an official blog post – first is the measurement system itself, called Perfkit Benchmarker, which tracks standard metrics like throughput, latency and overhead, in addition to overall resource provisioning times. The other part is dubbed Perfkit Explorer, a visualization tool that provides a series of dashboards and metrics to track performance across the cloud.+ ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Tim Cook explains what he really thinks of Android | Cloud giants do battle backed by distinctly different partner networks +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click hereRead More    WHITE PAPER: A10 Networks The Escalating Threat of DDoS Attacks  With increasing frequency and scale, some of the world's largest data center and network operators are suffering from crippling Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. View Now>> In this Issue Romancing development: How to avoid feeling vulnerable with open source Apple welcomes Linux and Android users to iWork The top 100 free Android apps from Amazon Facebook super-sizes its open networking switch Microsoft, IBM get behind stewardship of Node.js Web runtime platform INSIDER Learn to crunch big data with R 15 Unix tricks to get your new year off to a good start WHITE PAPER: A10 Networks Uncover Threats in SSL Traffic: The Ultimate Guide to SSL  Encrypted traffic accounts for a growing percentage of network traffic. 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It also describes the impact of these threats and it reveals the latest methods, tools and techniques used by attackers to exploit data. View Now>> Facebook super-sizes its open networking switch  Facebook is taking its crusade for open networking to a broader battlefield, using its 16-port “Wedge” switch design as the basis of a new modular platform that can link together racks of servers across a data center.The social networking juggernaut doesn’t intend to become a data networking vendor. It designs switches for its own needs and then open-sources its hardware designs so others can use them. In time, other companies could turn Facebook switch designs into products for sale, but Facebook won’t be directly involved, said Matt Corddry, director of hardware engineering at Facebook.Yet what the company is doing could eventually have a big impact on IT. Corddry compared the open hardware designs to Linux, the free, open-source operating system that started out being used by big “scaled computing” companies similar to Facebook and in time became the standard OS for enterprise servers. Facebook hopes the work it’s putting into open networking hardware will help to create a broad ecosystem of suppliers and developers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More  Microsoft, IBM get behind stewardship of Node.js Web runtime platform  Microsoft, IBM, and the Linux Foundation are among a number of organizations joining an initiative to manage Node.js, a popular runtime software that provides interactive Web interfaces for users.The Node.js. Foundation aims to be a vendor-neutral, nonprofit development organization to advance the open source Node.js and support its growing community of users. Founding members also include PayPal and the Fidelity financial services firm."What was once an innovative developer tool is now the framework of choice for millions of individuals and businesses around the world," wrote Joyent CEO Scott Hammond in a blog post announcing the new organization.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More  INSIDER Learn to crunch big data with R  Get started using the open source R programming language to do statistical computing and graphics on large data setsRead More  15 Unix tricks to get your new year off to a good start    The Unix command line provides numerous ways to make our work easier. Here are 15 "tricks" that I use often to make quick work of various tasks. Read More
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