PostgreSQL columnar store benchmarks on SSDs
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.
How to Lie with Data Visualization
Three common ways data visualizations can mislead.
Cloud Platform at Google I/O – new Big Data, Mobile and Monitoring products
Cost per task: Using cheap classifiers to route across Gemini models and thinking levels
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 …
LocalForage: Offline Storage, Improved
Web apps have had offline capabilities like saving large data sets and binary files for some time. You can even do things like cache MP3 files. Browser technology can store ...
Which Is Closer: Local Beer or Local Whiskey?
For which fraction of the US is the nearest brewery further away than the nearest distillery? Analysis and visualization done with Wolfram Language.
PredictionIO – open source machine learning for predictive features
PredictionIO is an open source machine learning server for software developers to create predictive features, such as personalization, recommendation and content discovery. Building a production-grade engine to predict users’ preferences ...
Roshi: a CRDT system for timestamped events
Let’s talk about the stream. The SoundCloud stream represents stuff that’s relevant to you primarily via your social graph, arranged in time order, newest-first. The atom of that data model, an event, is a simple enough thing. Timestamp User who did the thing Identifier of the thing that was done For example, At…
WebScaleSQL: A collaboration to build upon the MySQL upstream
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I Love Julia
For the past half year I’ve been exploring Julia in piecemeal fashion. It’s a language that does not conform to the traditional notions of programming. Julia...
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...
Fixing Bad Data in Datomic
The free database designed for immutable values and a time-aware information model.