May 2013
4 posts
Adobe: There Will Be No Creative Suite 7 →
fastcodesign:
Many design firms buy the new Adobe Creative Suite whenever it comes out. After all, the software is a mainstay for anyone who creates on computers. But today, Adobe has announced that there will be no Creative Suite 7. That’s because the Creative Suite is giving way to the Creative Cloud—a subscription-based model in which you pay for access to Adobe’s software monthly. And as it...
Big Data Gets Bigger: Now Google Trends Can... →
futuristgerd:
Yesterday three economists, (Tobias Preis of Warwick Business School in the U.K., Helen Susannah Moat of University College London, and H. Eugene Stanley of Boston University) published an eye-opening paper that said Google Trends data was useful in predicting daily price moves in the Dow Jones industrial average, which consists of 30 stocks.
Gerd adds: yet another reason why...
Big Data Gets Bigger: Now Google Trends Can... →
futuristgerd:
Yesterday three economists, (Tobias Preis of Warwick Business School in the U.K., Helen Susannah Moat of University College London, and H. Eugene Stanley of Boston University) published an eye-opening paper that said Google Trends data was useful in predicting daily price moves in the Dow Jones industrial average, which consists of 30 stocks.
Gerd adds: yet another reason why...
April 2013
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Big Data Is...
nosql:
I’ve seen this tweet from Tim O’Reilly quoting George Dyson on Keen’s post:
Big data is what happened when the cost of keeping information became less than the cost of throwing it away.
Smart. So smart. And true.
Original title and link: Big Data Is… (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)
Cool definition
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MongoDB Transactions With TokuDB's Fractal Tree... →
nosql:
Interesting new direction of TokuDB pushing their storage engine based on Fractal Tree Indexes to MongoDB:
Running MongoDB with Fractal Tree Indexes (used today in the MySQL storage
engine TokuDB) is fully transactional. Each statement is transactional. If
an update is to modify ten rows, then either all rows are modified, or none
are. Queries use multi-versioning concurrency control...
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March 2013
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“A new report out of Accenture documents how more organizations are relying on...”
– Tomorrow’s workforce will come from the cloud, study predicts | SmartPlanet
Totally. Maybe work can become useful again:)
Outsourcing to to cloud is the future!
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Surya's Tumblr: We don’t need more data scientists... →
suryaray:
#SuryaRay #Surya Virtually any article today about big data inevitably turns to the notion that the country is suffering from a crucial shortage of data scientists. A much-talked-about 2011 McKinsey & Co. survey pointed out that many organizations lack both the skilled personnel needed to mine…
Great article!
Software recognizes patterns to predict future →
obscureref:
Researchers have created software that predicts when and where disease outbreaks might occur based on two decades of New York Times articles and other online data. The research comes from Microsoft and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
The system could someday help aid organizations and others be more proactive in tackling disease outbreaks or other problems, says Eric...
February 2013
1 post
Hadoop at Yahoo!: 2013 Update →
nosql:
A chart is worth quite a few words:
Interesting bits:
Yahoo’s Hadoop cluster seems to have stabilized at around 40,000 nodes
the amount of data stored in HDFS grew to over 350PB.
for the last couple of years, Yahoo’s Hadoop cluster added around 50PB on top of existing data
14mil. jobs run on YARN
an average of 80,000 jobs/cluster/day
Original title and link: Hadoop at Yahoo!: 2013...
January 2013
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Revisiting JavaScript Objects →
sourcetocode:
One of the main focuses of ES5, has been to improve the JavaScript’s object structure and manipulation. The features it introduced do make lot of sense, especially if you’re working with large and complex applications. Also, ES5 features can be used in Node.js based projects without any issue. So this article revisits the ES5 object features and shows how they can be useful in...
December 2012
9 posts
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Modular web applications with Node.js and Express →
tjholowaychuk:
This short screencast describes how you can use Express’ app mounting feature to create modular self-contained applications to construct your product.
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NPM tricks →
sourcetocode:
A little list of tips and tricks related to NPM you might not know about, that come from Guillermo Rauch’ s experience working with it daily, in bothproduction and development.
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What should everyone know about big data? →
Nice summary answer by Amar Prabhu
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CSS Ratiocinator →
The CSS Ratiocinator automatically refactors your CSS and generates a new stylesheet for your site. It works by examining your site’s live DOM in the browser and reverse engineering a new, more elegant definition that captures styles down to the pixel.
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Strong Opinions @marksbirch: The Question of Scale →
The team is awesome and the product is great, we are just not sure it can scale
…an early stage investor that cites scale as the issue either:
Does not understand the startup’s business,
Does not have a good reason and is at a loss for words,
Does not wish to divulge real reason for passing,
Does not understand the difference between tractions and scale, or
Does not have a clue.
November 2012
19 posts
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Apache Solr vs ElasticSearch - the Feature... →
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SAP HANA With an Embedded Application Server. And... →
nosql:
Good or bad idea?
The core concept of SAP HANA Extended Application Services is to embed a full featured application server, web server, and development environment within the SAP HANA appliance itself. However this isn’t just another piece of software installed on the same hardware as SAP HANA; instead SAP has decided to truly integrate this new application services functionality...
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JWalk, a command-line JSON inspector →
thechangelog:
Sometimes inspecting JSON files can be a huge pain, which is exactly why Nate Kohari is created JWalk, a tiny NPM package that makes JSON inspection incredibly simple. First we will need a file to work with, if you don’t have one, simply run this at the command line to get some of our tweets @thechangelog in JSON format.
> curl -G -d count=5 -d include_rts=1...
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Is middle management blocking your social business... →
The middle is very often a conservative place in organizations. The challenge is that the top can be sincerely interested in incorparting social business, and there can be a lot of frontline people who are sincerely interested, but it’s what happens in the middle that can determine success and failure.
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“Tumblr operates at surprisingly huge scales: 500 million page views a day, a...”
– http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/11/19/gone-fishin-tumblr-architecture-15-billion-page-views-a-mont.html (via parkparadigm)
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fakeimg.pl →
onethingwell:
Fakeimg.pl is a little tool that generates images with an URL. Choose the size, the colors, even the text.
For example
<img src="http://fakeimg.pl/350x200/eee/555?text=One%20Thing%20Well" />
gives you
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William P. Riley-Land: Remove Gutters from... →
wprl:
Use a Media Query to Remove Gutters, Improve Span Overlap on Small Screens Working on the mobile version of william.jit.su recently, I ended up with a design with “scrunched” spans on iPhone. A simple solution: test for Bootstrap’s mobile screen size using a media query. When detected, I have…
Bootstrap goodies!
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“In contrast, the objective of marketing teams is to sell more stuff. What...”
– Seriously one of the best articles I’ve read all year.
The 15 warning signs that marketing is blocking your view of the user (via soxiam)
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The MongoDB NoSQL Database Blog: Storage-viz:... →
mongodb:
Storage-viz is a suite of web-based visualizers and new experimental database commands that may help you understand how MongoDB utilizes storage and organizes btrees. Storage-viz is now available in the MongoDB Nightly builds.
When a MongoDB collection is created, an on-disk extent is…
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Strong Opinions @marksbirch: Some Simple SaaS... →
courtenaybird:
How big is Dropbox? Hint: very big
An article in Forbes has some astounding stats that give you a sense of the size and scope of Dropbox’s business.
A billion files saved every 24 hours.
It has 100 million users, twice as many as a year ago.
Nearly 96 percent of…
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TJ Holowaychuk: Monitoring processes with mon →
tjholowaychuk:
mon is an extremely small, simple, and light-weight alternative to monit for monitoring processes. Monit’s approach of using a DSL is at times inflexible and often annoying. Mon’s approach is to monitor only a single process, monitoring of several require a mon instance per process. This…
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Installing node.js on rackspace cloud servers →
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Felix's Node.js Style Guide →
Good stuff!
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Node.js Stream Handbook →
notundefined:
Substack’s guide to using streams in Node.js. Good stuff; also: alternatives to callbacks-everywhere.
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The MongoDB NoSQL Database Blog: Data Science on... →
mongodb:
Today, I’m excited to announce the launch of Precog for MongoDB, a release that bundles all of the really cool Precog technology into a free package that anyone can download and deploy on their existing MongoDB database. Precog is a data science platform that lets developers and data…
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The MongoDB NoSQL Database Blog: MongoDB for the... →
mongodb:
This is part 3 in a series, which will focus on the data modeling aspect of working with document databases. The previous parts are also available for reading: Part 1: Getting Started, and Part 2: Queries and Indexes.
The Usual Suspects
Although there are plenty of existing articles,…
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Why Big Data Won’t Make You Smart, Rich, Or Pretty... →
hautepop:
If 2012 is the year of Big Data, it will likely be the year vendors and consultants start to over-promise, under-deliver, and put processes in motion that will generate insights and potential risks for years to come. […]
As Big Data becomes the next great savior of business and humanity, we need to remain skeptical of its promises as well as its applications and aspirations.
...
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System Theories: Big Data vs. Smart Data →
kurtcagle:
I’ve heard the Big Data meme thrown around quite a bit among the marketing folks, but have never been terribly comfortable with the traction that it’s gaining from a technical standpoint. It sounds like a way to sell lots and lots of servers (real and virtual) for doing all that processing of…
October 2012
42 posts
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myNoSQL: Next Neo4j Version Implementing HA... →
nosql:
The next version of Neo4j will remove the dependency on ZooKeeper for high availability setups. In a post on Neo4j blog, the team has announced the availability of the 1st milestone of Neo4j 1.9 which already contains the new implementation of Neo4j High Availability Cluster:
With Neo4j 1.9…
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TJ Holowaychuk: Express 3.0 →
tjholowaychuk:
Express 3.0 is here (finally) and while it is mostly a refinement release, between it and Connect 2.x there are some helpful new features. Sorry for the massive delay! Been busy and wanted to get a reasonable amount of documentation up on expressjs.com before releasing, more docs will be coming…
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The Brilliance of Hadoop →
nosql:
Ben Werther in the post announcing the Platfora:
The questions that these swirling datasets would one day support couldn’t be know yet. And yet to build a data warehouse I’d be expected to perfectly predict what data would be important and how I’d want to question it, years in advance, or spend months rearchitecting every time I was wrong. This is actually considered ‘best practice’.
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Definitive guide to big data →
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Logical Obsession: It is indeed very possible to... →
logicalobsession:
It is indeed very possible to recreate my class structure in JavaScript exactly as I did with ActionScript. What’s more interesting about this, however, is that I can use the server to keep an up to date, definitive and authoritative specification of particular game rules, like the physics…
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“Solr 4.0 Release Highlights”
– ReleaseNote40 - Solr Wiki (via laughingman7743)
Finally some much awaited features in Solr… such as updates to existing records without sending the entire doc again!!
The largest set of features goes by the development code-name “Solr
Cloud” and involves bringing easy...
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Lucene and Solr 4.0 released →
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“No, you’re misunderstanding the setup. Each replica has a complete
index....”
– SolrCloud replication question - Forum - SearchWorkings.org (via mocobeta) 