Tag: Open Source

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Chris Cheung. At RedisConf19, we officially released a new module called Redis Gears. You may have already seen some other modules by either Redis Labs or the community at large, but Gears will defy any expectations you have. It really pushes the limits of what is possible with modules. Gears scripts At first glance, Redis Gears looks like a general-purpose scripting language that can be used to query your data in Redis. Imagine having a few hashmaps in your Redis database with user-related information such as age and first/last name. Here is the execution breakdown for ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; We are glad to announce the 1.1.0 release of the  Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster.The Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster automates the lifecycle and provides a consistent Percona XtraDB Cluster instance. The Operator can be used to create a Percona XtraDB Cluster, or scale an existing Cluster, and contains the necessary Kubernetes settings.The Operator simplifies the deployment and management of the Percona XtraDB Cluster in Kubernetes-based environments. It extends the Kubernetes API with a new custom resource for deploying, configuring and managing the application through the whole life cycle.The ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ben Lorica, Harish Doddi, David Talby. Monument in Bydgoszcz (source: Krzysztof Mizera on Wikimedia Commons) Check out the "Financial Services" sessions at the Strata Data Conference in New York City, September 23-26, 2019. Early price ends August 9. As companies use machine learning (ML) and AI technologies across a broader suite of products and services, it’s clear that new tools, best practices, and new organizational structures will be needed. In recent posts, we described requisite foundational technologies needed to sustain machine learning practices within organizations, and specialized tools for model development, model governance, and ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Mark Needham. This week Greta Workman interviewed Mark Grover about Data Discovery at Lyft and we opened registration for the GraphConnect 2020 conference. We also learn about a tool for keeping track of applications in a micro services architecture, and Max De Marzi shows how to use motifs to solve link prediction problems. Our featured community members this week is Mark Grover, Product Manager at Lyft. He’s a former software engineer at Cloudera, Qualcomm, and more. Mark Grover – This Week’s Featured Community Member Mark impressed us with his desire to share his knowledge ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Christa Cody. Are you a seasoned data scientist looking for a fast, all-inclusive machine learning solution? Curious about machine learning but have little to no programming experience? Interested in using AI to take over the world? Follow my lead and use SAS VDDML to fast track your world domination. This blog is the beginning of a series on  SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning (VDMML) told from my perspective as a first-time SAS Viya user, Graduate Intern at SAS, and ABD PhD Candidate in Computer Science. I'm writing this series for two main reasons: 1) ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Andrew Treadway. Background The Collatz Conjecture is a famous unsolved problem in number theory. If you’re not familiar with it – the conjecture is very simple to understand, yet, no one has been able to mathematically prove that the conjecture is true (though it’s been shown to be true for an enormous number of cases). The conjecture states the following: Start with any whole number. If the number is even, divide by two. If the number is odd, multiply the number by three and add one. Then, repeat this logic with the result number. Eventually you’ll end ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code, an open source plug-in that makes it easier to create, step-through debug, build, and deploy applications, is now Generally Available. The toolkit supports .NET, node.js and Python applications and provides deep support for serverless applications at launch with other AWS services planned for the future. The toolkit had previously been in developer preview.  ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Salesforce is a popular and widely used customer relationship management (CRM) platform. It lets you store and manage prospect and customer information—like contact info, accounts, leads, and sales opportunities—in one central location. You can derive a lot of useful information by combining the prospect information stored in Salesforce with other structured and unstructured data in your data lake.In this post, I show you how to use AWS Glue to extract data from a Salesforce.com account object and save it to Amazon S3. You then use Amazon Athena to generate a report by joining the account ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Posts on Anything Data. It’s been a long time since my last update and I’ve decided to start with Tableau, of all topics! Although open source advocates do not look kindly upon Tableau, I find myself using it frequently and relearning all the stuff I can do in R. For my series of “how-to’s” regarding Tableau, I’d like to start with posting about how to make a waffle chart in Tableau. Setting Up For this tutorial I will use the famous iris dataset. You can find it anywhere, but it is primarily hosted at https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/iris. Download it ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.15 on July 10, 2019. You can download it from our download site and apt and yum repositories.Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, it drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backups.All Percona software is open-source and free.Bugs FixedWhen the encrypted tablespaces feature was enabled, encrypted and compressedtables were not usable on ... Read More