“The most valuable thing I’ve learned in this role is that judicious use of a little bit of knowledge can go a long way. I’ve seen colleagues and other companies get caught up in the “Big Data” craze by spend hundreds of thousands of pounds sterling on a Hadoop cluster that sees a few megabytes [...]
Sep
23
2013
Sep
12
2013
Join me Wednesday, September 18 at 10 a.m. PDT for an hour-long webinar where I will introduce the basic concepts behind column store technology. The webinar’s title is: “Introduction to open source column stores.”
What will be discussed?
This webinar will talk about Infobright, LucidDB, MonetDB, Hadoop (Impala) and other column stores
- I will compare features between major column stores (both open and closed source).
- Some benchmarks will be used to demonstrate the basic performance characteristics of the open source column stores.
- There will be a question and answer session to ask me anything you like about column stores (you can also ask in the …
May
30
2013
“Application designers need to start by thinking about what level of data integrity they need, rather than what they want, and then design their technology stack around that reality. Everyone would like a database that guarantees perfect availability, perfect consistency, instantaneous response times, and infinite throughput, but it´s not possible to create a product with [...]
Apr
22
2013
3Ci processes over a billion transactions a month. More than 100 million unique U.S. consumers have engaged with a business through our platform. All that activity creates massive amounts of data. The Data Team at 3Ci is responsible for keeping our offerings running at optimal performance and for making sense of our data. They manage MySQL [...] …
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Apr
17
2013
Join us next Friday in Santa Clara for a free day of learning and fun from the SkySQL & MariaDB gang & their partners
We’re proud to announce that Jim Tommaney, CTO of Calpont, has just signed on to speak at the MySQL & Cloud Database Solutions Day, hosted by SkySQL and MariaDB - taking place next Friday, April 26, directly after Percona Live: MySQL Conference & Expo.
Apr
17
2013
Join us next Friday in Santa Clara for a free day of learning and fun from the SkySQL & MariaDB gang & their partners
We’re proud to announce that Jim Tommaney, CTO of Calpont, has just signed on to speak at the MySQL & Cloud Database Solutions Day, hosted by SkySQL and MariaDB - taking place next Friday, April 26, directly after Percona Live: MySQL Conference & Expo.
Mar
25
2013
“Working with empirical genomic data and modern computational models, the laboratory addresses questions relevant to how genetics and the environment influence the frequency and severity of diseases in human populations” –Thibault de Malliard. Big Data for Genomic Sequencing. On this subject, I have interviewed Thibault de Malliard, researcher at the University of Montreal’s Philip Awadalla [...]
Dec
19
2012
In my ongoing efforts to migrate my fun side projects and coding experiments from SVN to Git I’ve come across some of my favorite Python based apps – which are all available in their respective repos on BitBucket, as follows:
- What it does: it’s an IRC bot that takes commands and does your bidding on whichever remote server the bot is installed on.
- How it does it: the bot runs on whatever server you install it on, then it connects to the IRC server and channel you configured it to connect to and it waits for you to give it commands, then it execs the commands and returns the output to your IRC chat window.
- …
Dec
10
2012
As this topic came up a few times this week for discussion at various places, I thought of composing a post on “Data Scientist vs. Data Analytics Engineer”; even though[...]
Dec
06
2012
As a follow up to the previous post about logstash, here are a couple of related init scripts for anyone implementing the OpenSource Log Analytics setup that is explained over at divisionbyzero. These have been tested on CentOS 6.3 and are based on generic RC functions from Redhat so they will work with Redhat, CentOS, Fedora, Scientific Linux, etc.
- Init script for ElasticSearch: located in the repo by clicking here – servicewrapper required
- Init script for Kibana: …