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Real-time Data Processing in AWS Cloud

In this article, author Oleksii Tymchenko discusses a bio-informatic software as a service (SaaS) product called Chorus, which was built as a public data warehousing and analytical platform for mass spectrometry data. Other features of the product include real-time visualization of raw mass-spec data.

Oleksii Tymchenko
on Nov 11, 2015
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Oozie Plugin for Eclipse

Oozie Eclipse plugin is a new tool for editing Apache Oozie workflows graphically inside Eclipse. Usage of this plugin allows to skip hard to develop and maintain process definition in HPDL. Instead a process graph is defined graphically by placing process actions on pallet and connecting them. An article introduces Eclipse Oozie plugin and provides an example of its usage.

Ahmed Mahran
on Oct 30, 2015
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Big Data Solutions with MS SQL ColumnStore Index

Columnar data storage can offer significant performance improvements over the way database tables are traditionally stored, but they aren’t always faster. Aleksandr Shavlyuga explores the power, and limitations of SQL Server’s ColumnStore Indexes.

Aleksandr Shavlyuga
on Oct 11, 2015
AI, ML & Data Engineering

The Estimation Game - Techniques for Informed Guessing

In this article, author Carlos Bueno discusses the strategies for estimating the server capacity for big data projects and initiatives, with the help of two case studies.

Carlos Bueno
on Sep 26, 2015
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing

Based on a webinar on analytics, this article covers the topics of machine learning and cognitive computing, and how these fields are related to artificial intelligence (AI). Panelists discuss how this technology is being applied in digital marketing space and what concerns organizations have in providing machine learning services.

Seth Earley
on Sep 19, 2015
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Garage Door Openers: An Internet of Things Case Study

In this article, author discusses how to design an Internet-connected garage door opener ("IoT opener") to be secure. He talks about cloud service authentication and security improvements offered by networked openers, like two-factor authentication (2FA). He also discusses security infrastructure for IoT devices, which includes user authentication, access policy creation & enforcement.

Jonathan Margulies
on Sep 13, 2015
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Breaking Down Data Silos with Foreign Data Wrappers

Author Lenley Hensarling discusses the Foreign Data Wrapper (FDW) feature in Postgres database. FDW provides a SQL interface for accessing data objects in remote data stores to integrate data from disparate sources like NoSQL databases and bring them into a common model.

Lenley Hensarling
on Sep 09, 2015
The Lean Machine: Bringing Agile Thinking to the Database

For some years now, Agile practices have been attracting application developers with their promise of short iterations, fast releases, and software that gets out there sooner. Those same practices are now entering the database space, but how can database development teams adapt, and where should they start?

Matt Hilbert
on Aug 05, 2015
7 Habits of Highly Effective Monitoring Infrastructures

There is a right way and a wrong way to engineer effective telemetry systems and there is a finite combination of practices which — whatever your choice of individual tools — are predictive of success. If you are building or designing your next monitoring system, take a look at this short list of habits exhibited by the most successful monitoring systems in the world today.

Dave Josephsen
on Jul 20, 2015
Big Data as a Service, an Interview with Google's William Vambenepe

Many of the Big Data technologies in common use originated from Google and have become popular open source platforms, but now Google is bringing an increasing range of big data services to market as part of its Google Cloud Platform. InfoQ caught up with Google's William Vambenepe, who's lead product manager for Big Data services to ask him about the shift towards service based consumption.

Chris Swan
on Jul 06, 2015
The Promise of Healthcare Analytics

Data analytics play a central role in the healthcare system by improving outcomes and quality of life while helping to control costs. In this article, author describes the role analytics can play with the emerging wearable technologies with biophysical interfaces, physiological sensors, and embedded diagnostic tools.

Seth Earley
on Jun 21, 2015
NoSQL For Mere Mortals Review and Author Q&A

Addison-Wesley Professional NoSQL for Mere Mortals provides an introduction to NoSQL databases spanning across the major types of databases that fall under the NoSQL umbrella and explaining both advantages and shortcomings that each database type offers. InfoQ has spoken with the book's author, Dan Sullivan.

Sergio De Simone
on Jun 16, 2015