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Making the Impossible Possible with Tachyon: Accelerate Spark Jobs from Hours to Seconds

Barclays Data Scientist Gianmario Spacagna and Harry Powell, Head of Advanced Analytics, describe how they iteratively process raw data directly from the central data warehouse into Spark and how Tachyon is their key enabling technology.

February 16, 2016

by Henry Powell

· 37,023 Views · 8 Likes

Report Finds Wearables Will Skyrocket in the Enterprise

Wearables have infiltrated the IoT space, but they're relegated mainly to the consumer market. However, 2016 may see wider adoption in the enterprise. Check out what APX Labs discovered in a recent report, "What's Next in Wearable Technology."

February 12, 2016

by Amy Groden-Morrison

· 4,127 Views · 1 Like

Executives' Perspectives on the Evolution of Data Management

Data management has evolved very rapidly since the introduction of Hadoop and big data.

February 12, 2016

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 5,297 Views · 1 Like

Solr vs Elasticsearch: Battle of The Query DSLs

Comparing Solr and Elasticsearch on how they control ranking, and how their query DSLs stack up against each other.

February 10, 2016

by Doug Turnbull

· 10,551 Views · 11 Likes

Fundamentals of Big Data Log Analytics

A presentation and slide deck on using several different tools including Graylog Splunk, and TIBCO to analyze log data.

February 8, 2016

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 9,893 Views · 3 Likes

Problems Being Solved With Databases — Executives' Perspectives

Databases are enabling companies to use data to inform real-time decisions about their business as well as to use predictive analytics to make better informed, real-time decisions.

February 8, 2016

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 22,414 Views · 2 Likes

What Are the Most Important Elements of Databases?

The most important elements of the database depend upon the application at hand.

February 7, 2016

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 23,180 Views · 3 Likes

LogPacker: A New Log Management Platform

Interested in log management? Check out LogPacker, a new log management platform! Neat features include scanning, aggregation, clustering, and more!

January 30, 2016

by Vladislav Chernov

· 5,051 Views · 4 Likes

How Amazon Uses Its Own Cloud to Process Vast, Multidimensional Datasets

Big Data has permeated a number of industries. Check out how companies like Amazon are using Big Data to delver business value in a several neat cases.

January 26, 2016

by Ann

· 38,812 Views · 6 Likes

What Big Data Tools Do Java Developers Use?

A recap from a recent Java survey to determine what kinds of big data tools are popular amongst Java developers.

January 21, 2016

by David Kiss

· 42,485 Views · 24 Likes

Building High Performance Big Data Analytics Systems

Learn various performance considerations when building your own analytics systems

January 19, 2016

by Rohit Dhall

· 15,610 Views · 23 Likes

Kafka Clients (At-Most-Once, At-Least-Once, Exactly-Once, and Avro Client)

Detailed tutorials and code snippets for setting up specific messaging scenarios in Apache Kafka.

January 15, 2016

by Ajmal Karuthakantakath

· 145,268 Views · 22 Likes

Quick Hadoop Startup in a Virtual Environment

A fully-featured Hadoop environment has a number of pieces that need to be integrated. Vagrant and Ansible are just the tools to make things easier.

January 5, 2016

by Alan Hohn

· 11,278 Views · 8 Likes

Space-based Architecture and Microservices in XAP

Find out what Space-based architecture (SBA) is and how it relates to microservices.

December 29, 2015

by Shay Hassidim

· 10,211 Views · 10 Likes

How to Exploit All Sensors of Your Mobile Phone as an IoT Device

How to use your Android phone, Apache Camel, Kibana, and ElasticSearch to use your mobile phone sensors as an IoT device.

December 17, 2015

by Abdellatif Bouchama

· 21,660 Views · 16 Likes

IoT is the Future — And You Can Get Started With it Now

Everyone wants in on IoT, so how can you get started?

December 16, 2015

by Amy Groden-Morrison

· 3,147 Views · 4 Likes

Security and Back-End Integration Top Mobile Challenges, Says Survey: Alpha Software

The mobile space is constantly evolving, and a recent survey published by Red Hat found that back-end integration and security were the two most rapidly changing areas of the mobile landscape.

December 11, 2015

by Amy Groden-Morrison

· 3,299 Views · 1 Like

Internet of Things: 4 Free Platforms to Build IoT Projects

If you're looking to get started with a new idea in IoT, check out these platforms.

December 5, 2015

by Francesco Azzola

· 87,577 Views · 12 Likes

The Internet of Things, Gateways, and Next Generation of APIs Speaker Session at APIStrat Austin

Check out these conference highlights concerning IoT development, API optimization, and data security from APIStrat Austin.

November 22, 2015

by Steven Willmott

· 7,344 Views · 6 Likes

The Future of Smart Farming With IoT and Open Source Farming

Smart farming is a concept quickly catching on in the agricultural business. Offering high-precision crop control, useful data collection, and automated farming techniques, there are clearly many advantages a networked farm has to offer.

November 5, 2015

by Michael Tharrington

· 51,433 Views · 11 Likes

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