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Links You Don't Want To Miss (May 23)

Always Be Coding - Put Yourself in the Best Position to Get an Engineering Job This post is a must-read for just about any developer.  Save it somewhere...

0 replies - 1272 views - 05/22/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Identity is the New Perimeter

It was Bill Gates who said that security should be based on "policy, not topology". It's a phrase which always stuck with me. Rather than basing security...

0 replies - 759 views - 05/23/13 by Mark O'neill in Articles

Project Plugh: Open Source Log Analysis

Short AnswerI'm building an open source log manage/analysis tool that will offer folks what Splunk offers folks, except it's...

0 replies - 2014 views - 05/23/13 by David Pollak 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 - 963 views - 05/23/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

The Rise and Fall of Binomial Coefficients

When you expand (x + y)n, the coefficients increase then decrease. The largest coefficient is in the middle if n is even; it’s the two in...

0 replies - 1124 views - 05/23/13 by John Cook 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 - 1042 views - 05/23/13 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

Need a 12-Digit Prime?

You may have seen the joke “Enter any 12-digit prime number to continue.” I’ve seen it floating around as the punchline in several contexts. So what...

0 replies - 1032 views - 05/22/13 by John Cook 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...

1 replies - 4119 views - 05/22/13 by Nick Johnson in Articles

Solr 4.2: Index Structure Reading API

With the release of Solr 4.2 we’ve got the possibility to use the HTTP protocol to get information about Solr index structure. Of course, if one wanted to do...

0 replies - 2241 views - 05/22/13 by Rafał Kuć in Articles

A Visit to the Valley

At the end of April, Leo and I went on a one week trip to the Valley. Over the years, we had built up a number of connections in the Valley and we...

0 replies - 1503 views - 05/22/13 by Mikio Braun 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 - 2033 views - 05/22/13 by Mike Cottmeyer in Articles

Escape Process’ Death Valley, or How to Tell a Cat From a Washing Machine

Ken Robinson recently delivered yet another great talk on the state of American education.  He pointed out that countries that take a more organic...

0 replies - 1657 views - 05/22/13 by Christopher Taylor in Articles

100 Killer App Tools

Here’s a roundup of tools for the developer which’ll almost certainly have something new to you: 100 Tools to Develop the Next Killer iOS or Android...

0 replies - 2598 views - 05/22/13 by Alex Curylo 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 - 1877 views - 05/21/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

How Does a Search Engine Work? An Educational Trek Through A Lucene Postings Format

A new feature of Lucene 4 – pluggable codecs – allows for the modification of Lucene’s underlying storage engine. Working with codecs and examining their...

0 replies - 5228 views - 05/21/13 by Doug Turnbull in Articles