Moving over to the Apache Software Foundation has been good for the Groovy language, with downloads more than doubling inside of six months. Orphaned by Pivotal in March, the dynamic language for the ...

Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with Hadoop, ...

The latest major release of the Apache programming language for the Java Virtual Machine offers numerous simplifications and new functions. The Apache Software Foundation has presented version 5.0 of ...

I'm trying to determine if this flow-based programming paradigm is good for us. We're going to, soon, be inundated with multiple different "streams" of inbound data in multiple formats and there are ...

Introduces students to various topics in Information Technology to provide an overview of what is available and used in the technology world today. Topics include Functional, Object Oriented, and ...