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Klint Finley

Klint Finley is a Senior Writer at SiliconAngle. His specialties
include IT services, enterprise technology and software development.
Prior to SiliconAngle he was a writer for ReadWriteWeb. He's also a
former IT practicioner, and has written about technology for over a
decade. He can be contacted at angle@klintfinley.com.

Latest from Klint Finley

Who Was the First Data Scientist?

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

Astronomer Tobias Mayer, born 1723, was the first data scientist John Rauser, a data scientist at Amazon.com, explained in a talk at Strata. Mayer explained the motion of the moon using spherical motion trigonometry. In order to do this, Mayer compiled nine …

Devs vs. Ops: Sushi vs. Meat and Potatoes

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

One of the criticism of DevOps we hear often is that it’s too focused on getting operations to change according to what developers want than getting developers to adjust to the realities that constrain operations. For example, Circonus CEO Theo Schlossangle made …

Red Hat Finally Open Sources OpenShift PaaS

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

Red Hat, known for keeping its enterprise distribution completely open source and still becoming the first $1 billion open source company, finally released the source code for its OpenShift platform-as-a-service. Red Hat launched the OpenShift beta in May 2011, but despite the …

Windows Port of Redis Updated by Microsoft Subsidiary

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Open Technologies, a Microsoft subsidiary that launched earlier this month, has released its first project: a new version of the Windows port of Redis begun by Microsoft. However, it’s not yet production ready. Previously Microsoft submitted a patch to provide Windows …

Programming Language Popularity Based On O’Reilly Book Sales

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

O’Reilly’s Mike Hendrickson has published some interesting data about the company’s programming book sales. I previously looked at Hacker News poll on readers’ favorite languages and compared it to RedMonk’s analysis of programming language use on Github and questions on StackOverflow. Looking …

Firebase Invites for DevOpsAngle Readers

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

Earlier today I told you about Firebase, a new hosted NoSQL database, and how it fits into the new client-centric application development paradigm. Firebase is still in private beta, but if you’d like to check it out early e-mail angle@klintfinley.com. The first …

Use IRC to Improve Collaboration in DevOps Groups

NEWS By KLINT FINLEY14 YEARS AGO

A while back we asked what tools your DevOps team uses to collaborate. IRC, Skype other chat tools were high on the list. It’s clear that text chat is an important tool for collaboration. In a recent piece on how the Puppet …

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