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Hadoop: What it is, how it works, and what it can do
Hadoop gets a lot of buzz these days in database and content management circles, but many people in the industry still don’t really know what it is and or how it can be best applied. Cloudera CEO and...
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A History of the Future in 100 Objects (Kickstarter) — blog+podcast+video+book project, to have future historians tell the story of our century in 100 objects. The BBC show that inspired it was...
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What CouchDB can do for HTML5, web apps and mobile
CouchApps are JavaScript and HTML5 applications served directly from the document-oriented database CouchDB. In the following interview, Found Line co-founder and OSCON speaker Bradley Holt...
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Oracle's NoSQL
Oracle’s turn-about announcement of a NoSQL product wasn’t really surprising. When Oracle spends time and effort putting down a technology, you can bet that its secretly impressed, and trying to...
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Helping educators find the right stuff
Education innovation will require scalable, national, open, interoperable systems that support data feedback loops. At the recent State Education Technology Director’s Association’s (SETDA) Leadership...
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Top stories: February 6-10, 2012
Here’s a look at the top stories published across O’Reilly sites this week. The NoSQL movementA relational database is no longer the default choice. Mike Loukides charts the rise of the NoSQL movement...
View ArticleFour short links: 15 March 2012
atomize.js — a distributed Software Transactional Memory implementation in Javascript. mari0 — not only a great demonstration of what’s possible in web games, but also a clever mashup of Mario and...
View ArticleHeavy data and architectural convergence
Recently I spent a day at the Hadoop Summit in San Jose. One session in particular caught my attention because it hints at a continued merging of the RDBMS and Hadoop worlds. EMC’s Lei Chang gave a...
View ArticleFour short links: 12 September 2012
Seriesly — time-series database written in go. Tablets and TV (Luke Wroblewski) — In August 2012, 77% of TV viewers used another device at the same time in a typical day. 81% used a smartphone and TV...
View ArticleFour short links: 23 November 2012
Trap Island — island on most maps doesn’t exist. Why I Work on Non-Partisan Tech (MySociety) — excellent essay. Obama won using big technology, but imagine if that effort, money, and technique were...
View ArticleFour short links: 19 April 2013
Bruce Sterling on Disruption — If more computation, and more networking, was going to make the world prosperous, we’d be living in a prosperous world. And we’re not. Obviously we’re living in a...
View ArticleFour short links: 5 July 2013
Quantitative Analysis of the Full Bitcoin Transaction Graph (PDF) — We analyzed all these large transactions by following in detail the way these sums were accumulated and the way they were dispersed,...
View ArticleAugmenting Unstructured Data
Our world is filled with unstructured data. By some estimates, it’s as high as 80% of all data. Unstructured data is data that isn’t in a specific format. It isn’t separated by a delimiter that you...
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NoSQL Choices: To Misfit or Cargo Cult?
Retreading old topics can be a powerful source of epiphany, sometimes more so than simple extra-box thinking. I was a computer science student, of course I knew statistics. But my recent years as a...
View ArticleDealing with Data in the Hadoop Ecosystem
Kathleen Ting (@kate_ting), Technical Account Manager at Cloudera, and our own Andy Oram (@praxagora) sat down to discuss how to work with structured and unstructured data as well as how to keep a...
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Restructuring the Web with Git
Web designers? Git? Github? Aren’t those for programmers? At Artifact, Christopher Schmitt showed designers how much their peers are already doing with Github, and what more they can do. Github (and...
View ArticleMore than enough Arel
In Just Enough Arel, we explored a bit into how the Arel library transforms our Ruby code into SQL to be executed by the database. To do so, we discovered that Arel abstracts database tables and the...
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Trusting Browser Code (Tim Bray) — on the fundamental weakness of the ‘net as manifest in the browser. Deep Learning in the Raspberry Pi (Pete Warden) — $30 now gets you a computer you can run deep...
View ArticleFour short links: 24 July 2014
Neglected Machine Learning Ideas — Perhaps my list is a “send me review articles and book suggestions” cry for help, but perhaps it is useful to others as an overview of neat things. First Crowdfunded...
View ArticleFour short links: 28 July 2014
streisand — sets up a new server running L2TP/IPsec, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, Stunnel, and a Tor bridge. It also generates custom configuration instructions for all of these services. At the end...
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