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Federal Reserve Bank of NY converts major economic model to Julia
Marco Del Negro, Marc Giannoni, Pearl Li, Erica Moszkowski, and Micah Smith We have implemented the FRBNY DSGE model in a free and open-source language called Julia. The code is posted here on GitHub, a public repository hosting service. This effort is the result of a collaboration between New York Fed staff and folks…
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Apache Kafka 0.9 is released
Major milestone release Apache Kafka 4.0 removes ZooKeeper entirely, provides early access to Queues for Kafka, and enables faster rebalances, in addition to many other new KIPs.
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Julia Computing Granted $600k by Moore Foundation
As data-driven research becomes more mainstream, the need for efficient and powerful scientific computing tools increases. To help meet this need, the Gordon an…
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Elasticsearch as a Time Series Data Store
Ever wondered how Elasticsearch handles time series metrics? Felix Barnsteiner from stagemonitor - an open source solution to application performance monitoring
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Time series database Graphite seems to be falling into disfavor
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Irmin: Git-like distributed DB
Read the post on "Introducing Irmin: Git-like distributed, branchable storage" from our blog.
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Open-sourcing Pinterest MySQL management tools
Building the platform where people around the world come to search, save and shop
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MariaDB 10.1 can do 1M queries per second
MariaDB 10.1 not only contains tons of new features, it has also been polished to deliver top performance. The biggest improvement has been achieved for scalability on massively multithreaded hardware. The following numbers show the throughput for a simplified sysbench OLTP benchmark on MariaDB-10.1.8 compared to…
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Data Infrastructure at IFTTT
Get more from the services you love on IFTTT. Explore the latest tips and tricks, browse by category, or search by name.
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Comparison – R vs. Python: head to head data analysis
R vs Python — which is better for data analysis and data science? Compare the two languages side by side for an objective answer!
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Amazon Elasticsearch Service
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Elasticsearch is a real-time, distributed search and analytics engine that fits nicely into a cloud environment. It is document-oriented and does not require a schema to be defined up-front. It supports…
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Perceptual Image Compression at Flickr
At Flickr our users really care about image quality. They also care a lot about how responsive our apps are. Addressing both of these concerns simultaneously is challenging; higher quality images have larger file sizes and are slower to transfer. Slow transfers are especially noticeable on mobile devices. Flickr had…
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Lower Cost S3 Storage Option and Glacier Price Reduction
Like all AWS services, the Amazon S3 team is always listening to customers in order to better understand their needs. After studying a lot of feedback and doing some analysis on access patterns over time, the team saw an opportunity to provide a new storage option that would be well-suited to data that is accessed […]
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GraphQL: A data query language
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Etcd 2.2
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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How CockroachDB Does Distributed, Atomic Transactions
One of the headline features of CockroachDB is its full support for ACID transactions across a distributed database. In this post, we’ll explain...
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Understanding ETF “Flash Crashes”
Join your peers in reading the latest perspectives and insights from FactSet experts across topics that matter to you.
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YC Stats
We get asked (a lot) for statistics on the YC portfolio about valuation and fundraising. Although these are very imperfect indicators of success, here they are. All of these companies actually went through a YC batch and got their start with us (e.g. we do not include Quora). Also, the YC application for the next…
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Sharding Pinterest: How we scaled our MySQL fleet
Building the platform where people around the world come to search, save and shop
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Building the Next New York Times Recommendation Engine
Alexander Spangher discusses recent work that’s been done to revamp our article recommendation algorithm.