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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.
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Building Applications using Apache Hadoop
Eli Collins overviews how to build new applications with Hadoop and how to integrate Hadoop with existing applications, providing an update on the state of Hadoop ecosystem, frameworks and APIs.
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Copious Data, the "Killer App" for Functional Programming
Dean Wampler supports using Functional Programming and its core operations to process large amounts of data, explaining why Java’s dominance in Hadoop is harming Big Data’s progress.
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Cloud and Big Data: Unicorns All the Way Down
Francine Bennett keynotes on using big data in the cloud.
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JavaScript as Data Processing Language & HTML5 Integration
Quentin Adam discusses the connections between NoSQL, data processing, message broking and JavaScript, and how one can quickly prototype with these tools.
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Facebook Messages: Backup & Replication Systems on HBase
Nicolas Spiegelberg discusses Facebook Messages built on top of HBase, the systems involved and the scaling challenges for handling 500TB of new data per month.