Tag: Product

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot.  “Would you like fries with that?”If you’ve ever ordered a sandwich at a fast food restaurant, then you’ve likely heard these words, but have you stopped to consider why fast food chains train their employees to ask this question? It’s because of what’s called “market basket analysis,” a technique based on the theory that if you buy a certain group of items, you are more (or less) likely to buy another group of items. Market basket analysis is the key to cross-selling. It works by looking for combinations of items that occur frequently in transactions ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Pradeep Bhanot. All customers are not equal – there are some your business just can’t afford to lose. Do you know who they are and what is required to retain them? With predictive analytics powered by Actian Avalanche, you can do just that.Companies have been using statistical modeling, data correlation and behavioral forecasting for many years to profile customers. Unfortunately, traditional capabilities have been limited by the amount and types of data they have been able to include in the analysis, leading to incomplete and inconclusive results. With Actian Avalanche, you can increase the accuracy of your ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Kristi Lewandowski. On November 6, 2018, we made our then-new production product, MemSQL 6.7, free to use, up to certain limits, described below. To date, we’ve had more than 4,500 sign-ups for this version, with numerous individuals and companies using MemSQL to do some amazing things. To quickly recap, with MemSQL any customer can sign up and start using our full featured product, with all enterprise capabilities, including high availability and security, for free. In talking to customers about their experience and what they’ve built, feedback has been astounding, with folks telling us they can’t believe ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Lalit Pandit. Over the past 30 years, Inovonics has risen to become a leading provider of industrial wireless IoT technology. We’ve deployed tens of millions of devices in challenging commercial environments across a wide variety of critical applications—from life safety to intrusion alerting to multi-family submetering. And while we work tirelessly every single day to improve the reliability and ingenuity of our wireless infrastructure and IoT solutions, we’ve come to realize that we have an equally compelling product to offer… data! The massive—and unique—sets of data collected by our wireless devices and sensors have tremendous application ... Read More

Author: . As the reality of our Sofia office moved from concept (one engineer working from home) to reality (six engineers working together in a real office), it seemed that the time was ripe to have one of our almost-quarterly Engineering Summits in Bulgaria. We still have several open positions there so I felt it was a good opportunity to meet some of our recruitment partners and personally reaffirm our commitment to investing in, and growing, our office there. We believe that the strong engineering talent we are continuing to find in Sofia will be integral to realising our vision of where ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon Web Services is Hiring. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a dynamic, growing business unit within Amazon.com. We are currently hiring Software Development Engineers, Product Managers, Account Managers, Solutions Architects, Support Engineers, System Engineers, Designers and more. Visit our careers page to learn more. Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Airbnb Engineering; Avoiding Double Payments in a Distributed Payments SystemHow we built a generic idempotency framework to achieve eventual consistency and correctness across our payments micro-service architecture.Jon ChewBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingApr 16Authors: Jon Chew and Ninad KhistiOne of the conference rooms in our San Francisco officeBackgroundAirbnb has been migrating its infrastructure to a Service Oriented Architecture (“SOA”). SOA offers many upsides, such as enabling developer specialization and the ability to iterate faster. However, it also poses challenges for billing and payments applications because it makes it more difficult to maintain data integrity. An API call to a service that makes ... Read More

Feed: What's New. AWS Client VPN provides you with the ability to securely access your AWS and on-premises networks from anywhere, using OpenVPN-based clients. Employees often need to access company resources while off premises, such as at home or on the road. Until today, to enable access, you could run a hardware VPN appliance in your data center or deploy a software-based VPN appliance on Amazon EC2. Setup, security, and maintenance of self-managed client-based VPN solutions present an operational challenge and ongoing burden. Unforeseen events, such as a snow day, could require a large number of employees to connect from ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Carl Caum; IT organizations often have to balance between moving faster to keep up with their business needs while providing safety to keep the business running. IT operations is responsible for defining the requirements to ensure infrastructure changes are safe. At the same time, other infrastructure and application deployment teams need to define the delivery process that’s right for them and deliver changes at the pace of development.Often, core IT automation teams will gate all changes to any infrastructure environment, including pre-production environments in order to maintain safety. This greatly reduces IT throughput as core ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Bikas Saha. Apache Spark is one of the most popular engines for distributed data processing on Big Data clusters. Spark jobs come in all shapes, sizes and cluster form factors. Ranging from 10’s to 1000’s of nodes and executors, seconds to hours or even days for job duration, megabytes to petabytes of data and simple data scans to complicated analytical workloads. Throw in a growing number of streaming workloads to huge body of batch and machine learning jobs — and we can see the significant amount of infrastructure expenditure on running Spark jobs. Costs that ... Read More