Tag: Open Source

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Cheuk Ting Ho. Cheuk Ting Ho  is a London based and data scientist. She contributes to the data science community by being a public speaker, encouraging women in technology, and actively contributes to Python open source projects (Github Cheukting). Being a data ambassador in DataKind, she also provides data science solutions for charities. Cheuk is the co-author of Enterprise AI - An Applications Perspective  published by Data Science Central and is also an invited guest expert at the University of Oxford – Data Science for Internet of Things course for Time ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. This blog is about my work on the Postgres open source database, and is published on Planet PostgreSQL. PgLife allows monitoring of all Postgres community activity. Optimizer Hints Wednesday, December 12, 2018 You might know that Postgres has optimizer hints listed as a feature we do not want to implement. I have covered this topic in the past. This presentation from Tatsuro Yamada covers the trade-offs of optimizer hints in more detail than I have ever seen before. Starting on slide 29, Yamada-san explains the number-one reason to use optimizer hints — as a short-term fix for ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Asavari Tayal. Azure Functions provides a powerful programming model for accelerated development and serverless hosting of event-driven applications. Ever since we announced the general availability of the Azure Functions 2.0 runtime, support for Python has been one of our top requests. At Microsoft Connect() last week, we announced the public preview of Python support in Azure Functions. This post gives an overview of the newly introduced experiences and capabilities made available through this feature. What's in this release? With this release, you can now develop your Functions using Python 3.6, based on the open-source Functions ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Sandra Pattison; In an age where you need a second job to go to the movies, it’s no wonder more and more people are looking for ways to watch films online. We’re going to tell you how to watch free movies, so you can grab some $1 snacks from the store and watch what you’ve been dying to see from the comfort of your couch. There are many ways to watch free movies, but how and where you find them boils down to how old they are. You may want to settle down with a classic or ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: Nagapriya Tiruthani. As we are wrapping up 2018 and looking ahead to the New Year, we are delighted to share some new capabilities added to our products and some details on events coming early next year.   Product news: Excited to announce the availability of IBM Db2 Big SQL v5.0.4 (on HDP 2.6) IBM Db2 Big SQL, an advanced SQL engine on Hadoop, has been making strides with the fast-evolving open source ecosystem by supercharging your analytical workloads on data lakes. The core capabilities of Big SQL focusses on data virtualization, SQL compatibility, scalability, performance, and of course ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Bikas Saha. This is the third in a series of data engineering blogs that we plan to publish. The first blog outlined the data science and data engineering capabilities of Hortonworks Data Platform. Motivation Apache Spark is becoming the de-facto processing framework for all kinds of complex processing including ETL, LOB business data processing and machine learning. This is because of the simple and intuitive APIs for common data processing operations and deep integration with popular languages like Java, Scala, Python and R. Increasingly, it’s also being adopted for continuous processing scenarios using the ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Oracle today announced the Oracle Cloud Native Framework, providing developers a cloud native solution that spans public cloud, on premises and hybrid cloud deployments. Capitalizing on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and the recently announced Oracle Linux Cloud Native Environment, the Oracle Cloud Native Framework introduces a rich set of cloud native managed services and on-premises software. The Oracle Cloud Native Framework also introduces Oracle Functions, a new breakthrough serverless cloud service based on the open source Fn Project. As organizations move to the cloud, they are facing new and difficult challenges addressing cultural change and increased ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Dan Taylor. We’re excited to officially announce the public preview of the built-in Python images for Azure App Service on Linux, a much requested feature by our customers. Developers can get started today deploying Python Web Apps to the cloud, on a fully-managed environment running on top of the Linux operating system. This new preview runtime adds to a list of growing stacks supported by Azure App Service on Linux, which includes also Node.js, .NET Core, PHP, Java SE, Tomcat, and Ruby. With the choice of Python 3.7, 3.6 and soon 2.7, developers can get ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Challenging thousands of data scientists to build a better worldData can be a powerful driver in solving social issues. The AWS Cloud Credits for Research Program seeks to remove barriers and enable researchers to do their best work, bringing them closer to the answers. The program offers grants to: Build cloud-hosted, publicly available, science-as-a-service applications, software, or tools to facilitate future research initiatives and research across communities; Perform proof-of-concept or benchmark tests evaluating the efficacy of moving research workloads or open datasets to the cloud; Educate a broader community on the ... Read More

Feed: Blog – ArangoDB. Author: Max Neunhöffer. It has been a few months since we first released the Kubernetes operator for ArangoDB and started to brag about it. Since then, quite a few things have happened. For example, we have done a lot of testing, fixed bugs, and by now the operator is declared to be production ready for three popular public Kubernetes offerings, namely Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Pivotal Kubernetes Service (PKS) (see here for the current state of affairs). We have developed a semi-automatic “acceptance test” to validate production readiness for each ... Read More