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Leveraging Scriptable Infrastructures, Towards a Paradigm Shift in Software for Data Science
Karim Chine introduces Elastic-R, demonstrating some of its applications in bioinformatics and finance.
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Amazon DynamoDB Design Patterns & Best Practices
Siva Raghupathy discusses DynamoDB Design Patterns & Best Practices for realizing DynamoDB benefits at the right cost.
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How Draw Something Scaled To 50 million New Users, in 50 Days, with Zero Downtime
Robin Johnson discusses using a data management model for games that can be scaled, and the bottlenecks and challenges met by OMGPOP scaling to millions of users.
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How a Graph Database Allows Shutl to Deliver Even Faster
Volker Pacher explains why Shutl chose Neo4j when faced with the need of building a new API meant to support business growth, the challenges met during implementation and solutions applied.
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Approximate Methods for Scalable Data Mining
Andrew Clegg overviews methods and provides use cases for performing data sets operations like membership testing, distinct counts, and nearest-neighbour finding more efficiently.
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Data Science of Love
Vaclav Petricek digs some of the romantic interactions nuggets hidden in eHarmony's large collection of human relationships.
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Leveraging Your Hadoop Cluster Better - Running Performant Code at Scale
Michael Kopp explains how to run performance code at scale with Hadoop and how to analyze and optimize Hadoop jobs.
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Rebuilding Your Engine at 200 Miles per Hour
Michael Brunton-Spall shares his experience re-architect The Guardian’ Content API from a system based on Solr to a message queue cloud service based upon Elastic Search, without any downtime.
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Core.logic and SQL Killed my ORM
Craig Brozefsky presents the tradeoffs involved with moving to a purely SQL relational model, instead of using an ORM, along with some of the tools built to facilitate this.
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The Technology behind an Equity Trade
John O’Hara discusses banking business and technology integration, covering: low-latency, high-frequency trading, in-memory caches, multi-terabyte time-series databases, and contracts in NoSQL stores.
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Equity – Transparent and Live Risk Assessment
Tormod Varhaugvik provides a design and rationale for an In Memory and Big Data architecture for live equity and risk assessment, using Tax Norway’ new architecture as an example.
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Lessons Learned Building Storm
Nathan Marz shares lessons learned building Storm, an open-source, distributed, real-time computation system.