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Ember and D3: Building responsive analytics
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,224 posts.
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Postgres 9.2 will feature linear read scalability up to 64 cores
Remember when I blogged about linear read scalability out to 32 cores ? Well, the awesome Nate Boley provided me with access to his brand n...
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Kids these days: the quality of new Wikipedia editors over time
As part of the 2011 Wikimedia Summer of Research, we uncovered a possible correlation between the decline in new active editors that began in 2007 and the rise of warnings issued to new users by bo…
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In-memory key-value store in C, Go and Python
"Coder's paternity leave turns into polyglot key-value store adventure"
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Why we didn't use a bloom filter
Josiah Carlson talks about Redis, Python, and other technology topics.
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Learning from 20 years of personal analytics
Utilizing data analysis capabilities in Wolfram|Alpha Pro, Stephen Wolfram looks at his quantified self based on his large collection of lifelogging data.
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How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data
We use MySQL for storing all of the data in FriendFeed . Our database has grown a lot as our user base has grown. We now store over 250 million entries and a bunch of other data, from comments and "likes" to friend lists.
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NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques
NoSQL databases are often compared by various non-functional criteria, such as scalability, performance, and consistency. This aspect of NoSQL is well-studied both in practice and theory because sp…
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How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90%
Given the title of this article, the first thing that should pop into your mind is probably - "well, use a compression algorithm - right?". ...
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How To Get Experience Working With Large Datasets
There are data sources out there, but which data source you choose depends on which technology you wish to get experience working with. The experience should be of the technologies you are using, rather than what the data is. Certain datasets pair better with certain technologies. Simulating the data can be another…
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MySQL Cluster 7.2 GA Released, Delivers 1 Billion Queries per Minute
Oracle is delighted to announce the immediate availability of the production-ready, GA release of MySQL Cluster 7.2, available for download under the GPL , and as part of the commercial MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition , including management tools, product certifications and 24x7 global support.
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MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases
In this article I digested a number of MapReduce patterns and algorithms to give a systematic view of the different techniques that can be found on the web or scientific articles. Several practical…
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Machine Learning for Hackers Table of Contents
ZIA is a place for me to “think out loud,” about my current and future research. As the author, my goals are to share my ideas, highlight new research, and possibly develop new tools along the way.
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A Tour of Amazon's DynamoDB
Amazon’s recent release of DynamoDB, a database whose name is inspired by Dynamo, the key-value database the distributed datastore they’ve been running in production for a good five to six years now. I think it’s great they’ve finally done it, though from my obverservations, there’s little resemblance of what the…
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Three years later, Mr. Moore is still letting us punt on database sharding
Three years ago, I wrote about how improvements in technology keep allowing us to punt on sharding the Basecamp database. This is still true, only more so now. We’ve grown enormously over the last three years but RAM keeps getting cheaper and FusionIO SSD’s keep getting faster. If an…