In a previous blog on some big data open source projects covered at OSCON 2014, I reviewed three distributed computing functional programming technologies by using them to write a simple aggregation report. In that blog, I mentioned reproducing the news feed performance map reduce job from a Clojure news feed service that I test ran…
Tag: Hadoop
architecture, big data, Technology
Functional Programming and Big Data
by glenn •
Functional Programming and Big Data for the Impatient Learn about the future of Functional Programming and Big Data by reading this evaluation of three relevant open source technologies; PigPen, Cascalog, and Apache Spark. A small report is written, that reports on the per minute count of post actions from a two hour test run of…
big data, Technology
Analytics Part 2 – Data Selection
by glenn •
Learn how to massage your application’s event logging into data that is compatible with analytics.
big data, Technology
Analytics Part 1 – Logging
by glenn •
Analytics has grown increasingly popular over the years and for good reason. There is currently no better way to arrive at a solid understanding of what your complex application is doing right and wrong than to numerically analyze its activity. This blog is a three parter. In today’s blog, I will cover the basics of…
architecture, Technology
Software Architecture Basics: Build vs Buy
by glenn •
Today’s successful applications are layered. With each layer, you get to evaluate and decide whether or not to build, buy, or adopt open source. Each choice has its own advantages and disadvantages.