A Computer That Doesn’t Feel Like A Computer
Its not a geek device, its a computing appliance. The iPad is a computer with an iPhone OS. Not a full fledged Os like we’re used to, no multitasking, terminal, filesystems… Just a list of Apps that can be installed and updated from the net. Simple, elegant, [...]
Google’s App Engine 1.3.0 was released yesterday along with a brand new Blobstore API allowing the storage and serving of files up to 50MB.
Store and Serve – Files can be uploaded and stored as blobs, to be served later in response to user requests. Developers can build their own organizational structures and access controls on [...]
Google’s App Engine 1.3.0 was released yesterday along with a brand new Blobstore API allowing the storage and serving of files up to 50MB.
Store and Serve – Files can be uploaded and stored as blobs, to be served later in response to user requests. Developers can build their own organizational structures and access controls on [...]
I found the following comparison between the iPhone and the Droid ads hilarious.
Especially, the following Droid bullets:
It is fast and it despises aesthetics.
It is packaged inside missiles launched by stealth jets. (*)
It is a robot and should mostly be handled by other robots.
Droid is to be used with robotic hands in a [...]
The Nuconomy team is expanding and we’re recruiting two developers and an operation manager for a new large scale web analytics project. So if you’re a kickass developer who’s interested in large scale computing and data processing, I’d like to hear from you! (you can email me to eran AT nuconomy.com)
Below are the official [...]
There’s a very interesting blog post over at Raw Thought on the topic of hiring programmers. It offers the following insight on hiring:
There are three questions you have when you’re hiring a programmer (or anyone, for that matter):
Are they smart?
Can they get stuff done?
Can you work with them?
Someone who’s smart [...]
This couldn’t be more ironic. The title for the presentation by Dov Moran, CEO and Chairman of Modu, at the upcoming TheMarker convention: (translated from Hebrew: “How to go from a huge company to a large one, from large to medium, from medium to small and from small to miniature, or the [...]
On the past few weeks I’ve been working on a new venture centered around the iPhone. The process of building our app has been quite an adventure and we’ve experimented with several technologies that were new to us before reaching our current technology stack. As we’ve finally got [...]
Jeff Rothschild, Vice President of Technology at Facebook gave a great presentation at UC San Diego on "High Performance at Massive Scale – Lessons learned at Facebook". The presentation’s abstract:
Facebook has grown into one of the largest sites on the Internet today serving over 200 billion pages per month. The nature of [...]
Last week the NY Times reported that Twitter has raised about $100 million of new funding, making the company’s value to be $1 billion. Just to put things in perspective, they also provide an example:
For context, that is almost double the market capitalization of Domino’s Pizza, which has 10,500 employees and [...]
tweetmeme_url='http://www.developerzen.com/2009/08/14/data-mining-handling-missing-values-the-database/'; tweetmeme_style = 'normal';tweetmeme_source = 'ekampf'; I’ve recently answered Predicting missing data values in a database on StackOverflow and thought it deserved a mention on DeveloperZen.
One of the important stages of data mining is preprocessing, where we prepare the data for mining. Real-world data tends to be incomplete, noisy, and inconsistent and [...]
tweetmeme_url='http://www.developerzen.com/2009/07/25/moving-your-application-to-amazon-s-cloud/'; tweetmeme_style = 'normal';tweetmeme_source = 'ekampf'; I’ve been dealing a lot with Amazon’s AWS platform lately. Mostly doing offline data processing using Hadoop but the latest load balancing features finally opened the door for frontend applications to take advantage of Amazon’s cloud computing platform – making it easier for developers to [...]
Facebook has the second largest installation of Hadoop (a software platform that lets one easily write and run distributed applications that process vast amounts of data), Yahoo being the first. It is also the creator of Hive, a data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop.
The following two posts shed some more light [...]
Yahoo! is releasing its own distribution of Hadoop:
Hadoop is a distributed file system and parallel execution environment that enables its users to process massive amounts of data.
In response to frequent requests from the Hadoop community, Yahoo! is opening up its investment in Hadoop quality engineering to benefit the larger ecosystem and to increase the pace [...]
The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) allows customers build secure, fault-tolerant applications that can scale up and down with demand, at low cost. One of the core features for achieving this kind of efficiency and fault-tolerant is the ability to acquire and release computing resources in a matter of minutes according to demand.
While Amazon’s [...]
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