Moving from Apache to Nginx with php-fpm
In order to address performance issues we have seen, our company has been switching from apache with mod_php to nginx with php-fpm. Given that apache httpd webserver is an older code base and does not...
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Personal Project to Benefit Animals
Over the last months I have been working on a personal project of a cause that I care about. Helping more dogs and cats and other pets to get adopted and not fall through the cracks and be destroyed...
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Great visualizations with D3
I’ve been seeing a lot of amazing infographics and visualizations. I was at a conference presented by Actuate the BI company. They presented a talk on visualizations in part because of purchasing a...
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Twitter4j + twitter + hadoop
I have been doing a bit of work with hadoop of late in my work life, mainly using streaming map reduce and pig working to extract additional data out of weblogs, which is a powerful paradigm. Before...
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Antifragile and implications for software
I just finished reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. This is a fascinating book, particularly for those interested in statistics and critical thinking and...
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We heard this week about The New York Times being hacked by the Chinese government in retaliation for articles they have written. These remind me that we live in unsafe times. Waiting for the...
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Shellshock the hyperbola and reality
There has been a lot about the Shellshock vunlnerability in the media, that has it’s roots in the bash command line tool on Linux and Unix environments. for hackers, coders and system administrators...
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Cassandra challenges
I have been recently working on doing research and development using Apache Cassandra (DataStax). Cassandra is an amazing piece of software. I went to a modeling class that a DataStax engineer ran that...
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Cloudera Impala an Exciting Technology
Cloudera Impala is an exciting Apache Hadoop based technology for doing fast sql queries on big data. Historically people have used Apache Hive, part of the hadoop tool set, but queries running on...
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Resource Requirements of Impala can be frustrating
Although I said in an earlier post that Impala is an exciting technology, using Impala under modest resources is very problematic. Although queries using small amounts of data come back faster, with...
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