Tag: scaling

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Andrea Manero-Bastin. This article, written by the Facebook research team, was written by Ben Letham, Brian Karrer, Guilherme Ottoni and Eytan Bakshy. It features some of the techniques used by Facebook for A/B testing. Facebook relies on a large suite of backend systems to serve billions of people each day. Many of these systems have a large number of internal parameters. For example, the web servers that power Facebook use the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) to serve requests, and HHVM has dozens of parameters that control the just-in-time compiler. As another ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Phil de Valence. By Andy Jones, Senior Technical Representative at Treehouse SoftwareBy Joseph Brady, Director of Business Development at Treehouse SoftwareBy Phil de Valence, Solutions Architect for Mainframe Modernization at AWSCustomers that still have business-critical data locked in mainframes want to exploit this data with Amazon Web Services (AWS) agile services for analytics purposes, to create new communication channels, and for quickly developing new innovations. Fortunately, Treehouse Software’s tcVISION replicates data in real-time and bi-directionally between mainframes and AWS to allow for these new use cases. Treehouse Software is an AWS Partner Network ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. This is the second part of the multi-series Benchmarking Managed PostgreSQL Cloud Solutions. In Part 1 I presented an overview of the available tools, I discussed the reason for using the AWS Benchmark Procedure for Aurora, as well as PostgreSQL versions to be used, and I reviewed Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 10.6. In this part, pgbench and sysbench will be running against Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 11.1. At the time of this writing the latest PostgreSQL version is 11.2 released about a month ago. It’s worth pausing for a second to quickly review the PostgreSQL versions currently available ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Michał Frącek. Last week I attended a three-day Gartner Summit in London. For all those who didn’t manage a trip, I want to share with you the biggest insights I gathered from the conference and review those things that impressed me the most. Business Vibe Visualization and interaction go hand in hand in modern businesses. Regardless of industry, the vibe, energy, and atmosphere defines a brand. And at the Gartner Summit, that vibe was entertainment with a dash of class. Organizationally, the event created the ambience of a large music festival ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . What is Multivariate Reporting and when is it helpful? Multivariate Reporting (also known as Small Multiples) uses a series of visuals with the same measure and same scales but showcases various partitions of the data. The benefit is that you can allow your report consumers to easily compare the same measure across dimensions and all in a single view! To better understand the value of multivariate report let’s look at following report: Company Revenue by State Here I have a visual that is NOT with multivariate mode OFF: You ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Tim O'Reilly. Gradual steps (source: Pixabay) This post was originally published on Quartz. The pursuit of monopoly has led Silicon Valley astray. Look no further than the race between Lyft and Uber to dominate the online ride-hailing market. Both companies are gearing up for their IPOs in the next few months. Street talk has Lyft shooting for a valuation between $15 and $30 billion dollars, and Uber valued at an astonishing $120 billion dollars. Neither company is profitable; their enormous valuations are based on the premise that if a company grows big enough and ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Maui and Sons is one of the best-known surf and skateboard apparel brands in the world, selling in more than 100 countries. When executives at the brand’s regional arm, Maui and Sons Chile, ran into obstacles scaling operations in Latin America, they rethought their technology approach. Bringing in Oracle Retail, Maui and Sons Chile established a foundation for future growth by streamlining inventory, adding new sales channels, and more effectively serving the needs of its customers. The Chilean-based company runs a complex supply chain that must allow for evolving product design and more than 100 ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Patrick Hall. Cyber crime (source: Pixabay) Check out the "Ethics, Privacy, and Security" sessions at the Artificial Intelligence Conference in New York, April 15-18, 2019. Like many others, I’ve known for some time that machine learning models themselves could pose security risks. A recent flourish of posts and papers has outlined the broader topic, listed attack vectors and vulnerabilities, started to propose defensive solutions, and provided the necessary framework for this post. The objective here is to brainstorm on potential security vulnerabilities and defenses in the context of popular, traditional predictive modeling systems, such ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. Choosing a database isn’t something you do every day. You generally choose it once for a project, then don’t look back. If you experience years of success with your application you one day have to migrate to a new database, but that occurs years down the line. In choosing a database there are a few key things to consider. Here is your checklist, and spoiler alert, Postgres checks out strongly in each of these categories. Does your database solve your problem? There are a lot of new databases that rise up every year, each of these looks ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rimma Nehme. We’re excited to announce that Forrester has named Microsoft as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q1 2019 based on their evaluation of Azure Cosmos DB. We believe Forrester’s findings validate the exceptional market momentum of Azure Cosmos DB and how happy our customers are with the product. NoSQL platforms are on the rise According to Forrester, “half of global data and analytics technology decision makers have either implemented or are implementing NoSQL platforms, taking advantage of the benefits of a flexible database that serves a broad range of use ... Read More