Highly Scalable

AUGUST 20, 2013

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. It became clear that real-time query processing and in-stream processing is the immediate need in many practical applications. In recent years, this idea got a lot of traction and a whole bunch of solutions like Twitter’s Storm, Yahoo’s S4, Cloudera’s Impala, Apache Spark, and Apache Tez appeared and joined the army of Big Data and NoSQL systems.

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Big Data Processing Lambda Database 154

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 13, 2013

'This year as I hosted AWS Summits in 12 different cities around the world, I met thousands of developers who are building powerful new applications for smartphones, tablets and other connected devices, all running mobile cloud backends on AWS. These developers want to engage their users with timely, dynamic content even when the users haven’t opened their mobile apps.

Mobile 96

Mobile Development AWS Games 96

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 30, 2013

The founder's optimism far exceeded his customer's interest. His aggressive expansion vapourized the cash he raised to start up the business. His options were to sell or liquidate. The firm that bought them was a multi-line company of online advertising & e-commerce driven businesses. The new owners set about trying to make their new acquisition profitable.

Code 40

Code Processing Innovation Development 40

Nick Desaulniers

AUGUST 27, 2013

Node.js is a great runtime for writing applications in JavaScript, the language I primarily develop in. CoffeeScript is a programming language that compiles to JavaScript. Why would we write a reusable piece of code, a module , in CoffeeScript? CoffeeScript is a very high level language and beautifully brings together my favorite aspects of JavaScript, Ruby, and Python.

Open Source 40

Open Source Programming Code Development 40

Speed Curve

AUGUST 13, 2013

Sort the items in a browser waterfall by Time, Savings and Slowest. Time is the default showing how assets loaded in the browser. Savings places assets at the top that have the greatest optimization potential and Slowest shows you which are the slowest overall requests.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 30, 2013

'Storing and querying datasets that contain objects in a geometric space have always required special treatment. The choice of data structures and query algorithms can easily make the different between a query that runs in seconds or in days. Much of the fundamental work has been done in the late eighties and early nineties, for examples around topological relations (disjoint, meet, equal, overlap, contains, etc.), direction relations (north, north-east, etc.) and distance relations (far, near),

Database 79

Database Systems 79

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 23, 2013

'The intense travels around the world in the spring have kept me from keeping up on the historical reading that I would like to do, as such there have not been that many suggesting for the back-to-basics reading list. The fall is going be not that much different but I will make an effort to get back into a reading habit. I want to kick off the fall readings not with an historical paper but with two that detail GraphLab , an excellent framework for high performance machine learning that originall

Cloud 74

Cloud Operating System Design Processing 74