• Top 10 Data Center Stories, November 2013

  In November, lots of data center stories drew our readers' interest. The top items included: the possibility of turning former Sears auto service centers into mission critical space, the automation at Facebook that allows a sys admin to manage at least 20K servers, and more. Enjoy!

• Akamai Acquires Prolexic to Protect Customers From DDoS Attacks

  Content Delivery Network provider Akamai (AKAM) has acquired Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation specialist Prolexic. Akamai is expanding its portfolio of services in response to increasing pressure in the CDN market, prompting the company to evolve into a hybrid CDN/security specialist.

• In Iowa, A Field Becomes a Billion-Dollar Google Server Farm

  It's not exactly "Field of Dreams." But a field in Iowa provides evidence of how the data center revolution can transform a piece of empty land into a $1 billion Internet traffic hub in a matter of months.

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• Colocation Outlook: Smashing the Crystal Ball

  Seen as the equivalent of "dipping a toe in the water", colocation is often viewed as the first step into outsourcing on the "Stairway to the Cloud." And pay-as-you-go colo may be just the thing to start an organization's journey into this new consumption-based world, writes Andy…

• SolrCloud on Docker

  SolrCloud on Docker This is a follow-up to my Solr on Docker post. For this one, we'll use a standalone ZooKeeper node, and three SolrCloud nodes, all in their own Docker containers. Docker version 0.7, build 0d078b6, on Ubuntu 13.04. ZooKeeper The current version of ZooKeeper is 3.4.5, and there…

• The SSL performance overhead in MongoDB and MySQL

  How to use MongoDB with SSL : As you can see the SSL overhead is clearly visible beingabout 0.05ms slower than a plain connection. The medianfor the inserts with SSL is 0.28ms. Plain connections havea median at around 0.23ms. So there is a performance lossof about 25%. These are all just rough…

• Expanding context in diffs

  Whether it's reviewing community changes to an Open Source project, orusing GitHub Flow on a private project, we all spend a lot of time looking at diffs.But to really understand a code change, we sometimes need to see more than just the default three lines of context. Today we're excited to…

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