Tag: Documentation

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Roel M. Hogervorst. In this post I will show how I run an R script on a schedule, by making use of ‘serverless’ computing service on the Microsoft Cloud called Azure Functions. In short I will use a custom docker container, install required software, install required r-packages using {renv} and deploy it in the Azure cloud. I program the process in azure such that the it runs once a day without any supervision. This is not truely a tutorial, I cannot say this it the best approach, but I hope you can base your work on this ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: kjytay. (This is a PSA post, where I share a package that I think that might be of interest to the community but I haven’t looked too deeply into myself.) Today I learnt of the covidcast R package, which provides access to the COVIDcast Epidata API published by the Delphi group at Carnegie Mellon University. According to the covidcast R package website, This API provides daily access to a range of COVID-related signals Delphi that builds and maintains, from sources like symptom surveys and medical claims data, and also standard signals that we simply mirror, like confirmed cases and ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Previously, AWS Cloud Map offered a Monthly Uptime Percentage of 99.9%. Now, AWS Cloud Map has updated it to 99.95%, increasing our commitment to service availability.  The updated SLA is available immediately in all regions where AWS Cloud Map is available. To see all of the Regions where AWS Cloud Map is available, see the AWS Region table. To learn more about AWS Cloud Map, please refer to the product page or documentation.   ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Emma White. This post was written by Dean Suzuki, Solution Architect Manager. Customers who run Windows or Linux instances on AWS frequently ask, “How do I know if my disks are almost full?” or “How do I know if my application is using all the available memory and is paging to disk?” This blog helps answer these questions by walking you through how to set up monitoring to capture these internal performance metrics. If you open the Amazon EC2 console, select a running Amazon EC2 instance, and select the Monitoring tab  you can see Amazon ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Justin Mescher. By Justin Mescher, Vice President of Cloud and Data Center, ePlus At ePlus, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, moving organizations to the cloud and helping them get the most out of it is our business. We work with teams in verticals such as healthcare, education, government, and financial services—all areas where digital transformation has been pushed into overdrive due to COVID-19. Especially now, leaders want to give their teams more hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS). That’s why, in the summer of 2020, we sent customers from our mid-Atlantic region ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Chalice now integrates with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). With CDK integration, you can now combine the familiar, decorator-based APIs of Chalice to write your application code with the entire CDK constructs to define your service infrastructure. This enables you to deploy your serverless application as a single, cohesive stack using the CDK. Chalice includes new project templates that enable you to quickly get a serverless application up and running with the CDK. A Chalice CDK construct enables you to extend your application resources using the CDK’s programming APIs and also map CDK constructs into ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) today increased the default service quotas for ECS tasks per service and services per cluster. You can now launch up to 5,000 tasks per service and 5,000 services per cluster, an increase from 2,000 each. The new limits apply in all regions where Amazon ECS is available. The higher limits are reflected in your account automatically and you do not have to take any action. If your account has an approved limit that is higher than the new limit, you will continue to have the higher limit. For more information, please ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Hong Ooi. [This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. by Hong Ooi Last week, I announced AzureCosmosR, an R interface to Azure Cosmos DB, a fully-managed NoSQL database service in Azure. This post gives a short rundown on the main features of AzureCosmosR. Explaining what Azure Cosmos DB is can be tricky, so here’s an excerpt from the official description: Azure Cosmos ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Although how range_optimizer_max_mem_size operates is explained in the official doc, it’s not a well-known variable and surely not a variable you need to modify under most circumstances. But from time to time we get some performance tickets related to this.What problem does this variable cause if it is not properly sized? Let’s find out with an example!Given the following table definition: CREATE TABLE `joinit` (   `i` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,   `s` varchar(64) DEFAULT NULL,   `t` time NOT NULL,   `g` int(11) NOT NULL,   PRIMARY KEY (`i`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=2490316 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1CREATE TABLE `joinit` (  `i` ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Ashley Lozito; Since launching in 2015, Matillion ETL has been used to provide faster time to value and increase data innovation for a wide range of users and across many industries. And as the number of users on our platform continues to increase, we see a handful of questions that always come up when data professionals evaluate and onboard Matillion ETL.To help our prospective users and new customers understand more about the capabilities of Matillion ETL and how the product works, our Solution Architects sat down to field some of the common questions we get asked about ... Read More