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Osquery: Expose the operating system as a relational database
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MIT computer scientists can predict the price of Bitcoin
CSAIL/LIDS team's algorithm doubles initial investment in under two months.
Percentage of Bachelor's degrees conferred to women, by major (1970-2012)
Randy Olson charts out the percentage of Bachelor's degrees conferred to women (by major) and makes some startling findings.
Facebook's software architecture
I had summarized/discussed a couple papers ( Haystack , Memcache caching ) about Facebook's architecture before. Facebook uses simple arch...
Pyleus: An Open-source Framework for Building Storm Topologies in Pure Python
Introducing Pyleus: An Open-source Framework for Building Storm Topologies in Pure Python Patrick L., Software Engineer Oct 15, 2014 Yelp loves Python, and we use it at scale to power...
We need tool support for keyset pagination
Pagination without OFFSET has many benefits but one problem: there is no tool support. Please help changing this.
Spark Breaks Previous Large-Scale Sort Record
Read how Apache Spark sorted 100 TB of data (1 trillion records) 3X faster using 10X fewer machines in 2014.
PostgreSQL 9.4 Beta 3 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released 9.4 Beta 3, the next beta release of the new version. This beta …
Naive Bayes and Text Classification I – Introduction and Theory
Naive Bayes classifiers, a family of classifiers that are based on the popular Bayes’ probability theorem, are known for creating simple yet well performing…
Re: MemSQL the “world's fastest database”? (2012)
On 6/25/12 10:23 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Craig James <cjames@emolecules.com> wrote: > >> It claims to be "the world's …
ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems
Zookeeper is an Apache project for providing coordination services to distributed systems. ZooKeeper aims to provide a simple kernel (a fil...
RethinkDB 1.15: Geospatial queries
Today, we’re happy to announce RethinkDB 1.15 ( Lawrence of Arabia ). Download it now!
Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014
At Backblaze we now have 34,881 drives and store over 100 petabytes of data. We continually track how our disk drives are doing, which ones are reliable, and which ones need to be replaced.
The Log: An Epic Software Engineering Article
There's some sort of inflection point where a "long read" becomes an "epic article." I'm not quite sure where that inflection point is, bu...
File Systems, Data Loss and ZFS
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Useful Unix commands for exploring data
While dealing with big genetic data sets I often got stuck with limitation of programming languages in terms of reading big files. Also so...