reliability

Databricks open-sources Delta Lake to make data lakes more reliable

Databricks, the company founded by the original developers of the Apache Spark big data analytics engine, today announced that it has open-sourced Delta Lake, a storage layer that makes it easier to e

How backups, backups, backups protect NYC’s cellular infrastructure

The infrastructure that underpins our lives is not something we ever want to think about. Nothing good has come from suddenly needing to wonder “where does my water come from?” or “how does elec

Quoth Dvorak: "Go to Craigslist and hire three programmers and an IT guy "

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/email4dummies.jpg" />John C. Dvorak rails against the LAPD's $7 million dollar email deal with Google. I agree that $7 million is a lot o