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Netflix Details Evolution of Keystone Data Pipeline
Netflix has shed light on how the company uses the latest version of their Keystone Data Pipeline, a petabyte-scale real-time event stream processing system for business and product analytics. This news summarizes the three major versions of the pipeline, now used by almost every application at Netflix.
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Gartner Identifies Key Internet of Things Technologies through 2018
In a recent report, Gartner identifies the top 10 Internet of Things (IoT) technologies through 2018. Subtitled "Ten Technologies That Will Enable Organizations to Unlock the Full Potential of the IoT," the report highlights specific IoT technologies that are expected to highly impact organizations working on IoT systems.
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Netflix, Coinbase, Fastly leaders track hosting @ QCon NY June 13-17
QCon New York planning is in full swing. QCon New York, the international software developer conference that attracts senior technical team members looking for innovator topics like immutable infrastructure, Lamba architectures, and innovations in DevOps, returns to the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge June 13-15th.
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jClarity Releases Censum 3.0
Censum, the Java garbage collection analysis tool by jClarity, has reached version 3.0. The main new features of the new version include the ability to analyse Safepoint logs, new graphs showcasing the behaviour of the G1 garbage collector, and a set of analytics to highlight whenever applications force to much OS activity.
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Funnel Analysis at Twitter for Improving User Engagement
Funnel analysis is used to analyze a sequence of events to help with user engagement on a website or a mobile application. Data Science team at Twitter uses this concept to learn how users interact with user interfaces during sign up or tweeting for improving user engagement with Twitter.
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AlphaGo: Google and DeepMind Publish Seminal AI Work
A game simulation at Google's Deep Mind defeated expert humans at Go last month in a breakthrough for AI. Go is considered one of the great unsolved problems in AI.
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InfoQ Security Disclosure - User Emails Copied
InfoQ recently became aware that an attacker gained access to our email list management system and the email addresses of some of our readers were illegally copied. We also know that some readers have subsequently received spam to their email accounts as a result of this breach.
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WBS PayTech Conference Highlights Mobile Payment Challenges and Issues
The WBS PayTech Conference, held at Warwick Business School in Coventry, UK, was a two-day event focused on mobile payment technologies, electronic fund transfers, and money exchange innovations. The ongoing 'transubstantiation' of money into data was a driving factor behind the conference.
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RethinkDB Has Ported Their Database to Windows
RethinkDB has launched a Windows port of their database. This version of RethinkDB took a year of development, runs on Windows 64-bit and it is currently in beta.
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Revolution R Enterprise has been Rereleased as Microsoft R Server
Revolution Analytics’ flagship product, Revolution R Enterprise, has been rebranded as Microsoft R Server. In addition to Windows, Microsoft R Server runs on Linux (SUSE/Red Hat), Hadoop (Red Hat only), and Teradata DB.
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R for SQL Server 2016
SQL Server is add support for the statistical programming language R.
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IBM Extends its Cloud Data Analytics Services
IBM has announced four new data services: Analytics Exchange, Compose Enterprise, Graph, and Predictive Analytics. IBM’s new data services are meant to enable users to analyze their own data or get access to datasets provided by IBM. While some of the services run on Bluemix, for others the data can be deployed on other clouds, including private ones.
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Results of the InfoQ Readership Survey 2015
We present here the results for three questions included in the Readership Survey that InfoQ ran in 2015.
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Q&A with Aleksey Shipilev on Compact Strings Optimization in OpenJDK 9
OpenJDK 9 introduces the compact strings optimization. InfoQ interviews Oracle Java performance engineer Aleksey Shipilev to understand more about this optimization and its performance impact.
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Benchmarking Netflix Dynomite with Redis on AWS
Last year, Netflix Cloud Database Engineering (CDE) team introduced Dynomite. Dynomite is a proxy layer, aiming to turn any non-distributed database into a sharded, multi-region replication aware distributed database system. Now Netflix released a benchmark using Dynomite with Redis in AWS infrastructure.