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Users have higher expectations than ever from applications. Your website or application has only 10 seconds to make a good impression, and only 20 min to help your users achieve a goal where they feel successful. How many of you are developers? (99% are developers in DevNation 2016 audience) How many of you have worked with a UX designer? (40% have worked with a UX designer). Regardless of whether you have a designer or not, you are responsible either alone...

Congratulations are in order as the Best of Open Source Software Awards have been announced by InfoWorld . The annual awards, known throughout the industry as the Bossies, recognize outstanding work in the open source community. This year, the Bossies named winners in six categories: applications, application development tools, datacenter and cloud software, desktop and mobile software, networking and security software, and big data tools. GlusterFS was named among winners in the category of best open source data center and...

by Chris Aniszczyk, Head of Open Source, Twitter Apache Mesos is a resource manager for datacenter infrastructure that uses a 2-level scheduling model to provide hardware resources to various application frameworks.Similar to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Mesos manages hardware and the execution of applications, while delegating the responsibility of deployment to other platforms. In the Mesos’ model, application frameworks are responsible for scheduling and deployment logic. Multiple frameworks can be run on bare metal at the same time, using a single pool...