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Software Development
The Life(Cycles) of UX/UI Development
It recently occurred to me that not one of the dozens and dozens of user interfaces I’ve worked on over…
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Enterprise Java
Applied Big Data : The Freakonomics of Healthcare
I went with a less provocative title this time because my last blog post (http://brianoneill.blogspot.com/2014/04/big-data-fixes-obamacare.html) evidently incited political flame wars.…
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Software Development
Looking for your aaS? (IaaS vs. PaaS vs. SaaS vs. BaaS)
Our API is getting a lot of traction these days. We enable our customers to perform lookups against our masterfile…
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Software Development
WTF is an architect anyway?
In full disclosure, I’m writing this as a “Chief” Architect (I can’t help but picture a big headdress), and I’ve…
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Enterprise Java
Crawling the Web with Cassandra and Nutch
So, you want to harvest a massive amount of data from the internet? What better storage mechanism than Cassandra? This…
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Software Development
The Economics of Open Source : Seek Free Code. Find Innovation.
In the past, many technologists had to evangelize open source within the enterprise. We had to justify its use, reassure…
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Enterprise Java
Broken Glass : Diagnosing Production Cassandra Issues
I just past my second year anniversary at Health Market Science (HMS), and we’ve been working with Cassandra for almost…
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Software Development
Zen and the Art of Collaborative Software Development
Conway’s law suggests that designs are constrained by organizational communication structures. I’ve seen that law manifest itself over and over…
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