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Scalable streaming analytics using a single-server
For many organizations real-time1 analytics entails complex event processing systems (CEP) or newer distributed stream processing frameworks like Storm, S4, or Spark Streaming. The latter have become...
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Pattern-detection and Twitter’s Streaming API
Researchers and companies who need social media data frequently turn to Twitter’s API to access a random sample of tweets. Those who can afford to pay (or have been granted access) use the more...
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Near realtime, streaming, and perpetual analytics
Simple example of a near realtime app built with Hadoop and HBase Over the past year Hadoop emerged from its batch processing roots and began to take on interactive and near realtime applications....
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Stream Processing and Mining just got more interesting
Largely unknown outside data engineering circles, Apache Kafka is one of the more popular open source, distributed computing projects. Many data engineers I speak with either already use it or are...
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Stream Mining essentials
A series of open source, distributed stream processing frameworks have become essential components in many big data technology stacks. Apache Storm remains the most popular, but promising new tools...
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Expanding options for mining streaming data
Stream processing was in the minds of a few people that I ran into over the past week. A combination of new systems, deployment tools, and enhancements to existing frameworks, are behind the recent...
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Offline.js — Javascript library so web app developers can gracefully deal with users going offline. Android Guides — lots of info on coding for Android. Statistics Done Wrong — learn from these...
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Is Parallel Programming Hard? And, If So, What Can You Do About It? — book by Paul E. McKenney, on single-machine multi-CPU parallel programming. Malignant Computation — The bitcoin mining network...
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In the last post in this series, we learned about functional interfaces and lambdas. In particular, we looked at the ITrade functional interface, and filtered a collection of trades to generate a...
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4 things to make your Java 8 code more dynamic
Java 8 has a few new features which should help you write more dynamic code. Of course one of the big features was the addition of a lambda syntax. But what about some of the other features that were...
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