Posts Tagged ‘Architecture’

Developing in a Microservice Environment: Part 1

If you have identified microservices as the best solution to the technical problems you are facing, then consider the following collection of helpful guidelines to help you get started.

Evaluating Microservices: Real World Lessons

Microservices are a popular topic in developer circles, because they are a means of solving problems that have plagued monolithic software projects for decades. Namely, tardiness and bugs, both caused by complexity.

The Basics of Classifier Evaluation: Part 1

If it’s easy, it’s probably wrong.

We Need a New Data Architecture: What Next?

It’s clear from the explosion of interest in newer platforms and technologies that the old tools and licensing costs don’t work to meet new business needs.

Dust in the Blockchain

Since the blockchain is both easily accessible and immutable, it is incredibly useful for other purposes. Issuing a tiny fraction of a Bitcoin (called dust) with embedded data allows anyone to easily store data permanently and publicly.

Use Cases for Apache Spark

The Apache Spark big data processing platform has been making waves in the data world, and for good reason.

The Blockchain is Forever

Who knows what unimaginable technology will exist in the next 20 years based on blockchains?

Two Tips for Optimizing Hive

Hadoop is only beneficial if using it is efficient. Hadoop’s Apache Hive is frequently used to handle ad-hoc queries and regular ETL workloads.

Using Docker to Build a Data Acquisition Pipeline

In this post, we walk through an example of using Docker to develop a data acquisition pipeline to ingest mobile app GPS data using Kafka and HBase.