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Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Percona Community; Cate Lawrence  | June 2, 2020 |  Posted In: DevOps, Kubernetes, MySQL, Open Source DatabasesThis session at Percona Live ONLINE was presented by Akshay Suryawanshi, Senior Production Engineer at Shopify, and Jeremy Cole, Senior Staff Production Engineer – Datastores at Shopify.Shopify is an online and on-premise commerce platform, founded in 2006. Shopify is used by more than a million merchants, and hundreds of billions of dollars of sales have happened on the platform since its inception. The company is a large user of MySQL, and the Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekends are their peak dates ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thomas M. [This article was first published on R [english] – NC233, 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. The French Ministry for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition (for which I’m currently working) is ongoing a process of opening data related to energy consumption. Each year, we publish data for every neighborhood in France (at the iris statistical level, even adresses in some cases) and to the nature ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Learning Machines. It is not easy to create secure passwords. The best way is to let a computer do it by randomly combining lower- and upper-case letters, digits and other printable characters. If you want to learn how to write a small function to achieve that read on! The exact task is again taken from Rosetta Code: Create a password generation program which will generate passwords containing random ASCII characters from the following groups: lower-case letters: a ──► zupper-case letters: A ──► Zdigits: 0 ──► 9other printable characters: !”#$%&'()*+,-./:;[email protected][]^_{|}~(the above character list excludes white-space, backslash and ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. At a company where most all people have some Postgres expertise you can easily learn something new from your coworkers every day about Postgres. In my first week I saw a question in our internal slack that I could guess an answer to, but it wasn't definitive ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: James Beswick. Web applications represent a major category of serverless usage. When used with single-page application (SPA) frameworks for front-end development, you can create highly responsive apps. With a serverless backend, these apps can scale to hundreds of thousands of users without you managing a single server.In this 3-part series, I demonstrate how to build an example serverless web application. The application includes authentication, real-time updates, and location-specific features. I explore the functionality, architecture, and design choices involved. I provide a complete code repository for both the front-end and backend. By the end of these ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Gavin L. Simpson. After a slight snafu related to the 1.0.0 release of dplyr, a new version of gratia is out and available on CRAN. This release brings a number of new features, including differences of smooths, partial residuals on partial plots of univariate smooths, and a number of utility functions, while under the hood gratia works for a wider range of models that can be fitted by mgcv. Partial residuals The draw() method for gam() and related models produces partial effects plots. plot.gam() has long had the ability to add partial residuals to partial plots ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Valeriy Kravchuk; In my previous post in this series I've commented on some interesting MySQL bug reports that were added during the second half of April. Time to move on to bugs reported in May, 2020, as we are quickly approaching MySQL Bug #100000 soon and I want to write a separate post for this great achievement :) Here is the list:Bug #99432 - "Improving memory barrier during rseg allocation". Nice contribution by my former colleague in Percona, Krunal Bauskar, who now works on making MySQL better for ARM processors. According to his findings, the use ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: John Mount. [This article was first published on R – Win-Vector Blog, 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. We have an exciting new article to share: Don’t Feel Guilty About Selecting Variables. If you are at all interested in the probabilistic justification of important data science techniques, such as variable selection or pruning, this should be an informative and fun read. “Data Science” is often criticized with ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Press Release National Grid Brings Customers’ Energy Journey to Life Video energy reports from Opower increase customer click-through rates by 12X Redwood Shores, Calif.—May 28, 2020 Watch the video National Grid is helping its customers better understand their energy journey, 90-seconds at a time. In partnership with Oracle Utilities Opower, National Grid launched a pilot of their first-ever video energy reports. In an animated story, customers received personalized insights on their natural gas usage last winter and advice on how to save energy and cut costs. Sent to 33,000 customers in Upstate New York via ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. For the first-ever Amazon Alexa EdTech Skills Challenge, Amazon Web Services (AWS) teamed up with SXSW EDU to challenge U.S.-based EdTechs on how they would use Alexa to transform education.Out of six finalists, AWS recognized two winners: judges’ choice SayKid, the recipient of $50,000 in AWS Promotional Credit, and people’s choice VOGO Voice, the recipient of $25,000 in AWS Promotional Credit. The other four finalists will receive $10,000 in AWS Promotional Credit. The judges’ choice: SayKid combines old-school play with new-school technology to help children learn. The Letter Game ... Read More