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Career
Undersell and Overdeliver
This week I received a multi-paragraph email from a job applicant who was applying for a developer position I had…
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Software Development
Real-time Message-driven Service Oriented Architecture: Bringing the Boom!
At Strata+Hadoop World in London, MapR Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture Jim Scott talked about Real-time Hadoop: The Ideal…
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Software Development
Configure hazelcast with EC2
Hazelcast is hands down a great caching tool when it comes to a JVM based application. If you use Amazon…
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Software Development
Microservices: Pros and Cons of Mono repos
Recently, there was an interesting question on Quora on Microservices – What companies use a mono repo but deploy as…
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Software Development
scitkit-learn: TF/IDF and cosine similarity for computer science papers
A couple of months ago I downloaded the meta data for a few thousand computer science papers so that I…
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Software Development
Getting Started Building 3D Simulations In Unity3D, Part 1
Welcome to part one of a three-part blog series on Unity 3D. In this series, we will create a simple…
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Agile
You’re doing it wrong: Daily stand-ups
“Everybody, please, stand up”, I remember encouraging everyone to rise to the occasion of another daily stand-up “meeting”. Even with…
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Software Development
A Practical Guide to Machine Learning: Understand, Differentiate, and Apply
Co-authored by Jean-Francois Puget (@JFPuget) Machine Learning represents the new frontier in analytics, and is the answer of how many…
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Agile
Minimum Valuable Problem
Defining and building a good minimum viable product is much harder than it sounds. Finding that “one thing” you can do,…
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