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We have previously provided a Quickstart guide to standing up Rackspace cloud servers (and have one for Amazon servers as well). These are very low cost ways of building reliable, production ready capabilities for enterprise use (commercial and government).  And Bryan Halfpap has provided a Quickstart guide which shows you how to build a Hadoop Cluster (leveraging Cloudera’s CDH3).  Using Bryan’s guide you can have a Hadoop Cluster up and running in under 20 minutes. With this post we would like to provide you with some additional tips that flow from these other posts. We will show you how to build clusters even faster using another common tool in community use, Whirr. What is Whirr? Apache Whirr is a set of libraries for running cloud services. Here is more from http://whirr.apache.org/  Whirr provides: A cloud-neutral way to run services. You don’t have to worry a... (more)

M3 code refactor & DBI support

Pluggable M3 (Monitis Monitor Manager) Framework Who needs an introduction about M3? – Perhaps no one! After gaining some reputation with M3, providing extra-easy integration of any monitor into Monitis it was time to take it to the next level. Generally speaking, the work flow of M3 was described in detail in this article. After some thought and design, we’ve decided it’d be best if M3 was pluggable. Pluggable in terms of being able to easily add execution and parsing plugins. The interface and behavior of M3 stayed exactly the same, however now it is much easier to obtain data f... (more)

How to: Use the Silverlight web part with Visual Studio 11

Visual Studio 11 adds a new feature that makes working with Silverlight in SharePoint 2010 a bit easier.  The new Silverlight Web Part feature automates deploying your Silverlight applications to SharePoint and can really save you a bit of time.  We took a look at how the Visual Web Part works in VS11 a while back.  Now, let’s see what happens when we use Silverlight.  To work with Silverlight,you can either create a new project or simply add a new item to an existing project.  I’ll start by creating a new project by choosing the item SharePoint 2010 Silverlight Web Part.  Remem... (more)

Using Tomcat With a Database – Performance Optimization Tips

The Internet is a great resource, but it is sometimes too much to wade through hundreds of web pages looking for tips about using Tomcat with a database. So we at Monitis have done it for you! Below are some of the more useful tips found in various places on the Internet. Tip #1 – Don’t Ignore Database Performance Webapps typically use databases. So, you have to tune the webapp along with the database if you want optimal performance. Take our advice. Performance test the database and define an appropriate database connection pool (maxActive, maxIdle, and maxWait in the Resource e... (more)

HR-XML Consortium, Inc., Recertifies Questionmark

The HR-XML Consortium has recertified testing and assessment technologies and services provider Questionmark as conforming to the Consortium’s open data exchange standards. Conformance to standards can help employers achieve smoother integrations between Questionmark® assessments and core HR systems, ultimately making it faster and easier for HR managers to perform essential tasks such as scheduling assessments or accessing results. By using a standard exchange format based on the industry standard XML, companies can use the best of breed systems from multiple suppliers and not ... (more)