• Infrastructure Change Brings Facebook Down

  Company attributes outage to configuration change error. Read More

• Google Enterprise Rebrands as "Google for Work"

  Hosted business application portfolio rebranded to reflect a more small- and mid-size-business-friendly image. Read More

• Elastic MapReduce Now Supports Hive 13

  I am pleased to announce that Elastic MapReduce now supports version 13 of Hive . Hive is a great tool for building and querying large data sets. It supports the ETL (Extract/Transform/Load) process with some powerful tools, and give you access to files stored on your EMR cluster in HDFS or in…

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• MySQL Cache Warming for Amazon RDS

  Among many other responsibilities, a relational database system must make efficient use of main memory (RAM) for buffering and caching purposes. RAM is far faster and easier to access than SSD or magnetic storage; a properly sized and tuned cache or buffer pool can do wonders for database…

• Introducing split diffs

  Diffs now come in two flavors, unified and split. Switch between them on pull request, commit, and compare pages using the toggle in the top right of the page. The mode you last used will become your preferred default.

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