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Twitter is home to some of the biggest Scala codebases on the planet. So it’s no surprise that a group of Twitter engineers have come up with an experimental new Scala compiler aimed solely at improving compiler speed.

Kicking off at 5pm GMT, Steve will be taking control of our Twitter. Read on for a taste of what’s in store from the C2B2 middleware expert.

With the proliferation of data sources and growing user bases, the amount of data generated requires new ways for storage and processing. Hadoop opened new possibilities, yet it falls short of instant delivery.

Michael Hunger explains how you can get the most out of the growing trend of graph databases, focusing on one of the leading lights in Neo4j. Features a heavy amount of Keanu Reaves

Michael Hunger explains how you can get the most out of the growing trend of graph databases, focusing on one of the leading lights in Neo4j. Features a heavy amount of Keanu Reaves

In this live coding session from JAXConf 2013, Jeff Scott Brown, senior engineer at Pivotal, will demonstrate how to build the basics of a Twitter-like application using Grails and JMS. By bringing together Spring, JMS, and Java persistence techniques, Jeff reviews some advanced tips for constructing Grails apps that go beyond simple CRUD applications. Filmed by Marakana – www.marakana.com

Thanks to Twitter and Cloudera’s efforts, Hadoop has a new storage format ready-made for analytic processing.

Twitter and AirBnB are already using the distributed resource manager – are more set to follow suit?

The company behind the enterprise-grade version of the NoSQL database target European expansion and further product growth in relational war.

Yahoo engineers integrate Twitter’s stream processing tech with Hadoop for scalability and data-sharing.

Pull-to-refresh patent no longer allowed to be used for offensive lawsuits without creator Loren Brichter’s permission.

Already used by social networking giants Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, is Apache Giraph set to lead the charge for scalable social graphs?

Also featuring the latest specifications surrounding Google Glass and Twitter’s new music foray

The data application framework, which builds on Hadoop, gets backing for enterprise version