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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.
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Coté Memo #050: not much on Friday, pretty boring for #50
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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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Selling to Hoodie and the Sticker-Festooned - Building a Developer Relations Program to Win Over Developers as Paying Customers
I’m just about the give a short presentation on developer relations and marketing at our HCTS conference. For those who didn’t make it, here’re the slides and the “script” I typed out. As you may recall, I wrote a large report on this topic published back in August. It’s been fun talking with people about over recent months.
Lost presentation: Selling to Hoodie and the Sticker-Festooned - Building a Developer Relations Program to Win Over Developers as Paying Customers
Coté Memo #046: I don't like dick-bags either, & more on marketing platforms
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As a product manager, you need to be able to balance all the work against all the work. Maybe you don’t have an ops background, that’s fine – you probably didn’t have a [domain] background when you came to work either. Learn. A lot of the success of a SaaS product is in the balancing of features against stability/scalability work against compliance work… If you want to take the “I’m the CEO of the product” role, then you need to step up and own all of it, otherwise you’re just that product’s Director of Wishful Thinking.
http://theagileadmin.com/2014/09/30/scrum-for-operations-just-add-devops/
A very developer sentiment there: “learn.” I don’t think most white collar people think like that. They think of themselves as cogs in a process, not process hackers. Which is fine. As Bourdain says in his first book, he doesn’t want his line chefs being inventive, he wants them to cook the dishes the same way every time, and fast, and 50 of them at once. That’s IRL, not the delightful fantasy land us tech people live in where there is no set menu.
What I mean when I say "fine"
I’ve found myself saying “and that’s fine” a lot recently. I have a weird lexicon of words and their corresponding hacked semantics that I often use in more of a way to entertain myself than to inform other people. Having this weird lexicon keeps me entertained and also lets me filter in and out people who know me well or don’t. It’s like people who call me “Mike.” They have no idea who I am.
Coté Memo #047: Selling a "platform" is one of the more difficult tech marketing tasks you'll ever do
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Coté Memo #046: Who's got the story?
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