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Happy Birthday, McKinsey Big Data Report

It’s now two years since McKinsey Global Institute’s seminal report, “Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity”, was...

0 replies - 1631 views - 05/26/13 by Bootstrap Mark... in Articles

Data Monetization is the End Goal

The billion dollar question facing executives everywhere: How do I monetize my data? What small data or big data monetization strategies should I adopt? ...

0 replies - 1666 views - 05/25/13 by Ravi Kalakota in Articles

The Testing Triangle, Circle, and UAT

A few months ago Markus Gartner introduced me to the Testing Triangle, or Testing Pyramid. It looks like this: If you Google you will find a few...

0 replies - 2420 views - 05/24/13 by Allan Kelly in Articles

Legacy Code Preservation: Language Incompatibility and Technology Evolution

It's important to address language or platform incompatibility as consequences of technology modernization. The reason why we have to do manual conversions of...

0 replies - 2091 views - 05/24/13 by Steven Lott in Articles

Mobile Device Fragmentation: It’s Only Going to Get Worse

As a mobile developer, you know you need to consider multiple devices when developing your app. But do you know just how many devices you need to support in...

0 replies - 2061 views - 05/24/13 by Leigh Shevchik in Articles

Building Human Fault-Tolerant Systems

In this really excellent talk from Strata 2013, Twitter's Nathan Marz walks through the challenges and serious rewards of building systems that are resilient...

0 replies - 2806 views - 05/23/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Big Data Overview and Cassandra Plunge

Thanks everyone for coming out last night.  We plowed through a lot of material. I posted the slides here: Big data philly_jug from Brian...

0 replies - 1620 views - 05/23/13 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

Legacy Code Preservation: Some Patterns

After looking at this suite of examples, we can see some patterns emerging. There seem to be several operating principles. The Data Matters. In many cases,...

0 replies - 3410 views - 05/22/13 by Steven Lott in Articles

Key Ingredient for Success: Systems Thinking

Our behavior is always a reaction to the system around us. Let us take an example of an Agile team working  on a project, and as we know its behavior...

0 replies - 2292 views - 05/22/13 by Venkatesh Kris... in Articles

Algorithm of the Week: Damn Cool Cardinality Estimation

Suppose you have a very large dataset - far too large to hold in memory - with duplicate entries. You want to know how many duplicate entries, but your data...

2 replies - 6198 views - 05/22/13 by Nick Johnson in Articles

Getting Teams to Deliver Predictably

As recently as this week, I’ve been involved in conversations with customers about how we can help make their teams deliver more predictably.  How can...

0 replies - 2795 views - 05/22/13 by Mike Cottmeyer in Articles

Data Science at LinkedIn

Data scientist Monica Rogati discusses data scaling at LinkedIn and reflects on the evolving role of the data scientist:

0 replies - 2584 views - 05/21/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

"Say Goodbye to Anonymity"

In case you missed 60 Minutes on CBS the other night, there’s a new challenge to privacy that is coming faster than people realize and...

0 replies - 2129 views - 05/21/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

I/O 2013: Android Graphics Performance

Chet Haase and Romain Guy from Google's Android UI team share some tips and tricks for getting the most out of Android graphics:

0 replies - 1121 views - 05/21/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

The Many Mathematical Models of the Shuffle

In a previous post, a few weeks ago, I mentioned that I will be in Las Vegas by the end of July. And I took the opportunity to write a post...

0 replies - 2538 views - 05/20/13 by Arthur Charpentier in Articles