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Possibly one of the biggest hurdles that stands in the way of fostering innovation and discovering newer and better techniques of doing old things is the ease with which developers and designers to…
Working efficiently with psql
In this post I go over how to extract a player's shot chart data and then plot it using matplotlib and seaborn .
Citus gives you all the greatness of Postgres plus the superpowers of distributed tables. By distributing your data and queries, your application gets high performance—at any scale. The Citus database is available as open source and as a managed service on Azure.
Developers hate him! We'll cover some standard tips and tricks here, but we're not really interested in those. We're looking for the One Weird Trick to rule them all. Hopefully each trick we encounter brings us closer to coding Mecca. In the beginning The first video game I ever wrote was called Ninja Wars. Yes, that…
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…
The 1.16 release is a precursor to the upcoming 2.0 release, and is the biggest RethinkDB release to date with over 300 enhancements . This release includes two exciting new features: a comprehensive API for large cluster management, and realtime push functionality that dramatically simplifies the development of…
Today, it is relatively straightforward and inexpensive to observe and collect vast amounts of operational data about a system, product, or process. Not surprisingly, there can be tremendous amounts of information buried within gigabytes of customer purchase data, web site navigation trails, or responses to email…
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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Chronos is a distributed task scheduler (cf. cron) for the Mesos cluster management system. In this edition of Jepsen , we’ll see how simple network interruptions can permanently disrupt a Chronos+Mesos cluster
Note (version) : I wrote this originally as a Redis module in early 2014, then Redis included a modified version directly into official Redis releases in 2016. Note (implementation) : The implementation included with Redis 3.2+ changed some parameter orderings from my original (intentional, well-thought-out) design…
Web-based dashboards are the most straightforward way to share insights with clients and business partners. For R users, Shiny provides a framework that allows data scientists to create interactive web applications without having to write Javascript, HTML, or CSS. Despite Shiny’s utility and success as a dashboard…
I am super-excited to announce that the book I've been working on for more than the last year, Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python is finally available! (buy from O'Reilly, use...
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Preetam "recently" blogged about catena , a time-series metric store. There was another blog post about benchmarking boltdb by a Fog Creek engineer, also looking to write a time series database. This is something of a pattern in the Go community, which already boasts seriesly , InfluxDB , and prometheus ; there are…
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To quote the last part of this blog post, "I think it's [asyncio] really well done, it's fun to use, and I still am interested in having more of a SQLAlchemy story for it, because I'm sure folks will still want this no matter what anyone says.". To that end, SQLAlchemy 1.4 now includes complete support for asyncio …
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first release candidate is available for download. This release should fix all …
This blog post has been translated into Russian , Japanese , Chinese , and Chinese again . For more detail on problems with CAP, and a proposal for an alternative, please see my paper A Critique of the CAP Theorem .
