I rarely talk about funding or acquisitions, but today is one of those days. First, TechCrunch reports on Verizon buying AOL for $4.4 billion. That is one big number and shows that Verizon wants to become a full media company. The second item comes from a MarkLogic press release where they announce $102 million in funding. This is important for two reasons. First, it is the database that I use at the day job 🙂 Second, this puts them near the same valuation as MongoDB, which means we have real competition in the NoSQL space. In the past two years, MarkLogic has been pushing the NoSQL idea after years of being “that XML database”. Obviously, it is working.
As always, enjoy today’s items, and please participate in the discussions on these sites.
Top Stories
- MarkLogic Secures $102M in Funding | MarkLogic
- Verizon Is Buying AOL For $4.4B [Internal Memo From AOL CEO Tim Armstrong] | TechCrunch
Startups, Career and Process
- Fundraising Roadmap Algorithm | Coding VC
Development
- Class Design Strategies — analysis vs. synthesis | S.Lott-Software Architect
- JDK 9 REPL: Getting Started | Java Code Geeks
- Java 9 Schedule | The Java Source
- Functional Signal Processing Using Swift | Chris Liscio
AI, Machine Learning, Research and Advanced Algorithms
Big Data, Visualization, SQL and NoSQL
- R: Cohort heatmap of Neo4j London meetup | Mark Needham
- Pipelining – A Successful Data Processing Model | Stuart Owen
- The Great Grid Map Debate of 2015 | Flowing Data
Infrastructure, Operations and DevOps
- Immutable Infrastructure Is The Future | Michael Dehann
Security, Encryption and Cryptography
- Implementing a trustless security solution with hardware wallets and multisignature | Ledger
- Rombertik and the rise of self-aware malware | Venture Beat
IaaS, PaaS, Saas and *aas
- Optimizing for Star Schemas and Interleaved Sorting on Amazon Redshift | Amazon AWS
- Move your big data lightning fast and at a low cost! | Google Cloud Platform
Link Collections
- Windows 10 Design – The Daily Six Pack: May 12, 2015 | Dirk Strauss
- Dew Drop – May 12, 2015 (#2012) | Morning Dew
- Visual Studio Extensions Future – The Daily Six Pack | Dirk Strauss
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