Tag: Open Source

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Branko Vlajin; Short message service started operating commercially in the early ‘90s and usage soared. Today, another form of messaging is taking a piece of the user base — instant messaging using smartphone apps, such as WhatsApp, which has 1.5 billion users, and Facebook Messenger, which was 1.3 billion. Such numbers are not surprising. Messaging apps let you reach somebody halfway across the world instantly. You can send texts, as well as pictures, audio and video. They are easy to install on smartphone operating systems and some are available for computer operating systems. We all know we ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. After the success of last year’s event, the second PGDay held in Australia, we’re back this year with PGDay Down Under. The name “Down Under” refers to Australia and New Zealand, due to the fact these countries are located in the lower latitudes of the southern hemisphere. The conference is a one-day community event organized by the newborn PostgreSQL Down Under Incorporated (also known as PGDU), a not-for-profit association established to support the growth and learning of PostgreSQL, the world’s most advanced open source database, in Australia and New Zealand. PGDay Down Under aims to satisfy a large ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. By Janos Szendi-Varga, Senior Consultant at GraphAware | October 18, 2018Reading time: 5 minutes Do you think there is no space for a graph database in your company? Or it would be a huge effort to integrate a graph database into your product? I have to tell you: You can use a graph database like Neo4j without touching your product, and you can use it for managing your company’s knowledge as well as to improve your software development process. So, even if your business problem is not inherently graphy (hard to believe ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Megan Mary Jane. When you surf the Internet using a regular browser, your IP address is broadcast for everyone to see. The data you search online is linked to your computer. Any content you send to your friends can be viewed by hackers and your government. The only way to secure your connection is to use a VPN service. VPNs encrypt your data and use a secure tunnel to transfer your traffic to a private server. Your IP address and all your traffic then read the new server. Your government can no longer track ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. PREVIOUS POST Hello everyone, and thank you to those that attended our webinar on Building an Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL setup using open source tools last Wednesday. You’ll find the recordings of such as well as the slides we have used during our presentation here. We had over forty questions during the webinar but were only able to tackle a handful during the time available, so most remained unanswered. We address the remaining ones below, and they have been grouped in categories for better organization. Thank you for sending them over! We have merged related questions and kept some ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Christie Gifrin. This post is courtesy of Maxime Thomas, DevOps Partner Solutions Architect – AWSThis story begins when I joined AWS at the beginning of the year. I had a hard time during my ramp-up period trying to handle the amount of information coming from all directions. Technical training, meetings, new colleagues, in a worldwide company—the volume of information was overwhelming. However, my first priority was to get my AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional certification. This gave me plenty of opportunities to learn and focus on all of the new domains I had never ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Better estimates of hurricane wind speeds can lead to better decisions around evacuations and general hurricane response planning, saving both lives and property. Hurricane windspeed estimates are currently made using the manual Dvorak technique. The National Hurricane Center releases them every three to six hours. Artificial intelligence (AI) experts with the IMPACT team at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and Development Seed created the Deep Learning-Based Hurricane Intensity Estimator to automate this process.This process takes infrared imagery as input and runs a machine learning algorithm to estimate the windspeed. These estimates are more reliable than human classifiers and ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Katarina Milic. In Q1 2018, the Serbian economy grew by 4.5 percent, well ahead of forecasts. The data science community also grew, rapidly attracting talent and energy, but still not fast enough to meet demand! Things Solver is a Serbia-based data analytics and engineering company working with customers worldwide, and is one of SAS’ local partners in the European region. I caught up with them to understand more about their origins, their plans for the future, and how their involvement in the local data science community is helping them to grow. Tell us about how the ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: The Pythian Group; Co-Author: Rafael Alvarez When you look up the word idempotence in wikipedia you get the following definition: Idempotence is the property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science whereby they can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application. When I think of idempotence in the sense of how IT operations work, the very first thing that comes to mind is Ansible. In Ansible you have a yml file that represents a state you want the target host to be in. For example, I can use the yum module to ... Read More

Feed: CDH – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Tom Wheeler. Cloudera has put a significant amount of work into upgrading the third-party libraries used in our just-released C6 version. This major upgrade of our software has given us the opportunity to upgrade many of the libraries we use. These upgrades allow us to avoid security vulnerabilities, use modern versions of libraries, and to standardize versions of libraries across CDH. Modern software development relies on reusing other people’s code. Code reused in this fashion is called a “third-party library.” There are many, many examples of this: engineers who need a web server ... Read More