Tag: education

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. AWS is dedicated to building programs and services suitable for use by the justice and public safety community. Whether in law enforcement, emergency management, corrections or courts, AWS has the capability and resources to address this community’s unique IT needs.To meet the security and compliance requirements of Canadian police agencies, AWS aligns with the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) Information and Technology Sub-Committee’s offsite data storing and processing best practices, including: Vendor requirements, including 24×7 managed tier 1 and tier 2 support, proven incident response processes, and data encryption ... Read More

Feed: Percona Database Performance Blog. Author: Manjot Singh. Manjot Singh  | July 27, 2017 |  Posted In: Insight for DBAs, MySQL, MySQL 101 PREVIOUS POST In this blog, we’ll quickly look at MySQL partitioning. Partitioning is a way in which a database (MySQL in this case) splits its actual data down into separate tables, but still get treated as a single table by the SQL layer. When partitioning, it’s a good idea to find a natural partition key. You want to ensure that table lookups go to the correct partition or group of partitions. This means that all SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE should ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Melissa Park. Join us in Sydney on September 20-21 for DataWorks Summit/Hadoop Summit, the industry’s premier big data community event. Attend this year and learn from your peers and industry experts how open source technologies enable you to leverage all your data, on premise and in the cloud, to drive predictive analytics, distributed deep-learning, and artificial intelligence initiatives. Planning is well underway and we can’t wait to deliver our biggest and best APAC Summit to-date! Here are just a few of the reasons you will want to attend: Over 60 sessions of cutting edge ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Alexandra Hanna. 27 July, 2017 | Alexandra Hanna The Biggest Improvers in Tableau I was recently working on client site at a university, transforming their Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reporting suite. This type of report looks at how individual KPIs perform over time and compare against other institutions. There are 135 higher education providers in the UK1 so it’s difficult to compare against the whole group, but we can narrow down the list to some of the better-performing universities in order to see their performance and prioritise areas where they can easily make changes. The client ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. AWS Serve is an initiative to provide nonprofits with the cloud resources they need to power their mission, workforce, and the communities they serve. These resources include training, nonprofit office hours, and access to AWS Promotional Credits, which provide a dollar-for-dollar subsidy of an organization’s on-demand infrastructure spend on AWS. Emerging and established nonprofits can effectively leverage the AWS platform to improve program outcomes by harnessing the power, flexibility, security, and performance of AWS cloud services. Eligible nonprofit organizations will be able to access the program annually. Program benefits include: $2,000 ... Read More

Feed: Percona Database Performance Blog. Author: Manjot Singh. Manjot Singh  | July 26, 2017 |  Posted In: MySQL PREVIOUS POST In this blog post, we’ll look at what innodb_autoinc_lock_mode is and how it works. I was recently discussing innodb_autoinc_lock_mode with some colleagues to address issues at a company I was working with.This variable defines the lock mode to use for generating auto-increment values. The permissible values are 0, 1 or 2 (for “traditional”, “consecutive” or “interleaved” lock mode, respectively). In most cases, this variable is set to the default of 1. We recommend setting it to 2 when the BINLOG_FORMAT=ROW. With interleaved, INSERT statements ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Corey Sanders. Containers have fundamentally changed the way developers develop their applications, the way applications are deployed, and the way system administrators manage their environments. Containers offer a broadly accepted and open standard, enabling simple portability between platforms and between clouds. Today, I am extremely excited to announce a new Azure service that makes it even easier to deploy containers. The very first service of its kind in the cloud, Azure Container Instances (ACI) is a new Azure service delivering containers with great simplicity and speed and without any Virtual Machine infrastructure to manage. ACIs ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. For a long time, information security has been a war between men but recently it has become a battle between man and machine. The development of AI is slowly moving this fight into a new environment: machine versus machine, carefully directed by scientists or hackers. If you were picturing action filled AI vs AI battles, that’s only in Hollywood movies for now, but things can change in a matter of years due to Moore’s Law. Cyber security threats A study from 2016 uncovered that information theft is ... Read More

Feed: Percona Database Performance Blog. Author: Dave Avery. Dave Avery  | July 25, 2017 |  Posted In: Backups, MySQL, Technical Webinars PREVIOUS POST Join Percona’s, Architect, Manjot Singh as he presents Database Backup and Recovery Best Practices (with a Focus on MySQL) on Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). In the case of a failure, do you know how long it will take to restore your database? Do you know how old the backup will be? In this presentation, we will cover the basics of best practices for backup, restoration and business continuity. Don’t put ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Rob. One of the many nice things about summer is the time and space it allows for blogging. And, after a very stimulating SRTL conference (Statistics Reasoning, Teaching and Learning) in Rotorua, New Zealand, there’s lots to blog about. Let’s begin with a provocative posting by fellow SRTL-er Tim Erickson at his excellent blog A Best Case Scenario.  I’ve known Tim for quite awhile, and have enjoyed many interesting and challenging discussions. Tim is a creator of curricula par excellence, and has first-hand experience in what inspires and motivates students to think deeply about statistics. The central ... Read More