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SXSW apologizes, launches day-long Online Harassment Summit South by Southwest organizers earned the ire of the internet this week after canceling two panels aimed at addressing online harassment and "GamerGate" culture in the video game industry. Windows 10 upgrade push changes things for IT pros and bootleggers Microsoft mistakenly pushed Windows 10 upgrades to existing Windows 7/8 users through the Update process earlier this year, but next year it will do it on purpose. Steam Halloween sale slashes prices on 'GTA V' and more You know Steam loves to celebrate most holidays in a big way -- with notable discounts on ton of different games. Android and Chrome OS may be combined as early as next year For years, people have wondered if Google would merge its Android and Chrome operating systems, and the company has steadfastly held to them important but distinct pieces of its strategy. The coming smart-thing apocalypse Bad Password is a hacking and security column by Violet Blue. Every week she'll be exploring the trendy new cyberhysteria, the state of the infosec community and the ever-eroding thing that used to be called "privacy." Bad Password cuts through the greed, fearmongering and jargon with expertise, a friendly voice and a little levelheaded perspective. Like some people I know familiar with the ins and outs of digital surveillance (and startle like housecats when an app makes a geolocation request) I don't own any "smart" home items. Microsoft Band 2 review: Still flawed, but a step in the right direction You really can't accuse Microsoft of phoning it in when it built the original Band. Between jamming 10 different sensors into a glorified wristband and creating a new health platform to interpret your data, the company shot for the stars... Hands-on with the smaller, cheaper OnePlus X From the moment you pick up the OnePlus X, it's hard not to think about the iPhones of yesteryear. Samsung's absurdly large Galaxy View tablet is official After being teased and leaked multiple times over the past few weeks, Samsung today officially revealed its supersized 18.4-inch tablet, the Galaxy View. HTC One A9 review: Not the winner this company needs After the year HTC has had, you almost can't help but feel bad for them. Don't. The Taiwanese phone maker can't take your pity to the bank, so it sequestered itself behind closed doors and tried to build a new smartphone that would excite people the way the last-gen One M9 simply couldn't. Hands-on with Motorola's shockingly sturdy Droid Turbo 2 Motorola's new Droid Turbo is here, and its arrival might be a tough pill to swallow for Verizon customers who just shelled out cash for a new Moto X. Copyright © 2014 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Engadget 410 Townsend St., Suite 450 San Francisco, CA 94107 Follow Engadget You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com for the Weekends With Engadget newsletter. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

Enabling Micro-Services in the Cloud

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ENABLING MICROSERVICES IN THE CLOUD WITH VOLTDB AND DOCKER In a high volume streaming data environment that’s required to handle millions of events, in real-time, a primary goal is to make sure the data infrastructure can not only manage this massive streaming data, but ensure the solution is scalable and easily repeatable. Read the case study about one of the largest and most successful loyalty programs in the world. Using Docker, the solution leverages AWS Elastic Load Balancing to automatically distribute incoming application needs without manual intervention. The result was an integrated, highly scalable 10 million-person loyalty program that can turn data into deployed services quickly and easily; enabling them to respond rapidly to changing needs and insights.

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