Development Tools

Team of rivals: Hortonworks, Pivotal join up for Hadoop project

Apache Ambari integrates third-party components for Hadoop installation, provisioning, and monitoring

Why one developer switched from Java to Google Go

Go excels for building system-level software

Apache Cordova lets developers create Android apps from third-party WebViews

WebViews let developers code in HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS and access native OS functions

How to create a data lake for fun and profit

The architecture of a data lake is simple, what matters more is how you draw and use the data

The truth about big data: It’s more than technology

Big data isn't a one-off project: It's a culture of collecting, analyzing, and using data

Facebook to release open source library for iOS interface development

GitHub takes center stage at OSCON

Appcelerator gears up for the business world

The Appcelerator mobile development platform has been updated for better metric collection and building of APIs

JVM plus Docker: Better together

JVM-Docker combination yields new options for Java application packaging and deployment

Review: Cloud Foundry brings power and polish to PaaS

Cloud Foundry buildpacks provide framework and runtime support for Java enterprise applications