I recently came across the rather cool Kickfire analytics appliance, which not only does hardware-based database query execution but is also based on F/OSS technologies.
Similar to the Azul Java compute appliance the secret is in the bespoke silicon which has been developed to do one thing and to do it well. When a job can [...]
A few weeks ago I was very fortunate to be able to make it along to the Linux Foundation’s annual Collaboration Summit. Fortunate not only because it is invite only, but due also to the financial crisis making travel somewhat trickier and transatlantic travel extremely difficult. Plus a few weeks later and it would [...]