Tech & Work World Quick Hits Rackspace reports solid growth in the third quarter - time to turn back on the love-pipes, I guess. The point being: it’s hard to figure out how to rate a company, esp. on short-term financials.
Microsoft rebrands Lync as ‘Skype for Business’; readies 2015 releases (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet) - people tell me that Lync now is great, and I hope it is.
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And all of it, Nadella maintained, is part of a product focus which is less far-flung than it might look. When considering Microsoft’s products, “I just think about three things,” he said. “There’s Windows, there is Office 365, and there is [cloud platform] Azure. That’s it. Everything else, to me, you can call them features.”
Satya Nadella’s Microsoft Wants To Make Productivity Sexy, Inspiring, And Futuristic
Coté Memo #053: there's a lot of earth for software to eat, day 1 of #CAWorld
Follow-up It’s been awhile. The family and I were on vacation for a bit in Paris, and then I was at the OpenStack Summit. Tech & Work World Quick Hits Why Podcasting Is Bigger Than You Think – Edison Research (Annotated Tab Pile) - there’s a thought-technology battle going on to convince people that podcasts are a viable advertising medium. Sounds good to me. SquareSpace, right?
Coté Memo #052: Two types of clouds and headless doctors
Follow-up Hey there! It’s been awhile. I warned you, things are monkey-balls over here. Tech & Work World Quick Hits Nancy Gohring summarizes OpenStack vendor sports of late - an excellent, concise overview of the OpenStack movements of late. Nancy is one of the best tech reporters out there working on cloud. I’m glad she’s over on thenewstack.io too.
Double Whammy: IBM Sheds Chip Unit As Financial Woes Hit Hard - Power lives on.
When in Rome, format your PowerPoints like the Romans do
One of the “tricks” you learn in programming - “soft skills,” apparently they used to call them - is that you should match the style and formatting of the code you’re editing. If you’re starting with your own code from scratch, no problem, go crazy. But if you’re like most developers in the world and maintaining an existing code base with incremental improvements, you’ll more often than not be editing and adding to existing code.
Coté Memo #051: Meetings suck, links galore
Tech & Work World Quick Hits Join the Foglight beta
The look of a leader
Developer Events Run Down: What’s Coming Up and What Not to Miss - nice list of developer related events coming up
Comparing Uber &co. To traditional taxi fares - yes, indeed.
With New Analytics Service, Salesforce Challenges Startup Visualization Crowd - back in the 2000s or so, Business Intellegence was a natural next step for ERP.
NBC Universal turned to Spark to analyze all the content meta-data for its international content distribution. Metadata associated with the media clips is stored in an Oracle database and in broadcast automation playlists. Spark is used to query the Oracle database and distribute the metadata from the broadcast automation playlists into multiple large in-memory resilient distributed datasets (RDDs). One RDD stores Scala objects containing media IDs, time codes, schedule dates and times, channels for airing etc. It then creates multiple RDDs containing broadcast frequency counts by week, month, and year and uses Spark’s map/reduceByKey to generate the counts. The resulting data is bulk loaded into HBase where it is queried from a Java/Spring web application. The application converts the queried results into graphs illustrating media broadcast frequency counts by week, month, and year on an aggregate and a per channel basis.
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NBC Universal runs Apache Spark in production in conjunction with Mesos, HBase and HDFS and uses Scala as the programming language. The rollout in production happened in Q1 2014 and was smooth.
Apache Spark Improves the Economics of Video Distribution at NBC Universal – Databricks
Shit’s bonkers out there. If I’d have proposed that to an architect “back in my day,” they’d have told me to go shot myself. They’d say: “uh, so, how about we just make a database table and ETL tool that does that?”
The last part - all those different things used - is amazing. Again, the architect would say: “we write things in Java. Try again.”
Granted, the point is: things like Spark and friends let you move beyond dealing with just tidy data and analitects. But, still, sloppy is as sloppy does, right?
Coté Memo #049: how to brief analysts, tech co.'s splitting up, noise canceling-enough
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Coté Memo #046: I don't like dick-bags either, & more on marketing platforms
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