It’s a generally accepted maxim that the business community’s fascination with big data, which started in the mid-2000s, ran out of steam about five years ago. But that’s only partly true. While the ...

In the Big Data era, many scientific and engineering domains are producing massive data streams, with petabyte and exabyte scales becoming increasingly common. Besides the explosive growth in volume, ...

Microsoft Corp.-owned professional networking site LinkedIn is open-sourcing another new project. Dynamometer is a new tool is focused around stress-testing large Hadoop big-data deployments without ...

LinkedIn engineers have open sourced a homegrown Big Data scale testing tool following a "crisis" they experienced after adding 500 machines to a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) cluster, ...

Many components—such as those used in autos, appliances, and airplanes—undergo leak or pressure tests after production to ensure they are working safely and properly. Companies such as ours have ...