Category: Technology
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CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed
Eric Brewer about CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed:
The CAP theorem asserts that any networked shared-data system can have only two of three desirable properties. However, by explicitly handling partitions, designers can optimize consistency and availability, thereby achieving some trade-off of all three.… Continued
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Seven Questions for Workday CEO and Greylock Partner Aneel Bhusri
Seven Questions for Workday CEO and Greylock Partner Aneel Bhusri:
Few people in Silicon Valley wear as many hats as Aneel Bhusri. Currently known primarily for his role as co-CEO of Workday, the cloud-based human resources software company that floated in an IPO last year, he also maintains an active role as a partner at venture capital firm Greylock Partners.… Continued
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A Tour through the Visualization Zoo
A Tour through the Visualization Zoo:
The goal of visualization is to aid our understanding of data by leveraging the human visual system’s highly tuned ability to see patterns, spot trends, and identify outliers. This article provides a brief tour through the “visualization zoo,” showcasing techniques for visualizing and interacting with diverse data sets.… Continued
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Performance vs. Scalability
Building scalable system is becoming a hotter and hotter topic. Mainly because more and more people are using computer these days, both the transaction volume and their performance expectation has grown tremendously. This one covers general considerations.… Continued
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How to hire data scientists and get hired as one
How to hire data scientists and get hired as one:
Data scientist might be the sexiest job of the 21st century, but it’s hardly an easy gig to land. Here is some advice from practitioners at Netflix, Orbitz and Hortonworks on how get hired and even do the hiring.… Continued
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IBM ponies up $1B to add flash to more products and speed up big data
IBM ponies up $1B to add flash to more products and speed up big data:
IBM said Thursday it would spend $1 billion to support flash storage in more of its products and open 12 facilities worldwide to show enterprises what a difference flash can make.… Continued
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The Quiet Revolution in Programming
The Quiet Revolution in Programming:
during the last 24 months, the sheer volume of change in the computing paradigm has been so great that programming has felt its imprint right away. Multiple programming paradigms are changing simultaneously: the ubiquity of mobile apps; the enormous rise of HTML and JavaScript front-ends; and the advent of big data.… Continued
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Dataguise Presents 10 Best Practices for Securing Sensitive Data in Hadoop
Dataguise Presents 10 Best Practices for Securing Sensitive Data in Hadoop. Yeah, you gotta hop over to read it at myNoSQL…