The Cloud Wars
Some high profile IT vendors heat up their cloud washing media spend in three recent conferences in San Francisco.
View ArticleAnalytics of Designing Software Products
Most of the great software you see is the result of endless iteration guided by good data.
View ArticleOpen Source Export Transform and Load
Can Pentaho Kettle really be used to load San Francisco crime data into an OLAP database?
View ArticleMigrating from MySql to Cassandra
Persistent notifications are a great use case for Cassandra which really shines when storing time series data in wide rows. Our use of Cassandra is almost text book Service Oriented Architecture.
View ArticleScaling Clojure Web Services
How does modern, trendy web service technology stand up under increasing system load?
View ArticleTop 5 Blogs from 2013
Enjoy these stories about entrepreneurship, collaborative filtering, email, and big data.
View ArticleDatabases at OSCON 2014
This year, I attended the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland, Oregon. They had 370 presentations in 17 tracks. Here is what I picked up from these four sessions on open source database...
View ArticleFunctional Programming at OSCON 2014
Object Orientation makes code understandable by encapsulating moving parts. Functional Programming makes code understandable by minimizing moving parts.
View ArticleBig Data at OSCON 2014
The latest and greatest open source projects for big data of interest to engineers, analysts, and data scientists. You can get a lot of value out of these technologies without having to write some...
View ArticleProcessing Performance Data with Kibana
Kibana is an open source replacement for Splunk which offers real-time collection and search of distributed log file data. Splunk is not cheap and this kind of functionality is critical to tech start ups.
View ArticleLearning Data Mining with KNIME
KNIME is friendly to data mining and machine learning newcomers with an easy to learn application workbench GUI and great help documentation.
View ArticleText Mining with Modern Open Source
I will compare how KNIME, Solr, Elastic Search, and Lucene work in the world of text mining. Mining text has become quite popular with data scientists and other analytics folks when it comes to...
View ArticleClojure vs Scala
With micro-services, each service is less complex; however, you have only moved the complexity over to the infrastructure dedicated to inter-service communication and orchestration.
View ArticleThe Rise of the Data Science Notebook
One of the rising trends in the data science community is the use of a new class of web application software, called notebooks. Here I will show you how to easily install and use an open source...
View ArticleElastic Search and Kibana for Real-Time Performance Monitoring
Build your own Kafka performance data pipeline with Akka and Elastic Search.
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