Charting PagerDuty Incidents over Time (using pandas)

We churn out charts for board meetings to show the health of our system (uptime, etc.). Historically, we did that…

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BaDaS Arsenal : from grep to graph in under 5 minutes w/ Pyplot

BaDaS = Big and Data and Science These days, BaDaS is all the rage. And to be successful at it,…

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Integrating Syslog w/ Kinesis : Anticipating use of the Firehose

On the heals of the Kinesis Firehose announcement, more people are going to be looking to integrate Kinesis with logging…

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Amazon Echo : Syntax, Semantics, Intents and Goals: NLP over time.

So I caved.  Even with all my Apple paraphernalia, I bought an Amazon Echo.  I’ve had it for a little…

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Streaming data into HPCC using Java

High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) is a distributed processing framework akin to Hadoop, except that it runs programs written in…

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Tuning Hadoop & Cassandra : Beware of vNodes, Splits and Pages

When running Hadoop jobs against Cassandra, you will want to be careful about a few parameters. Specifically, pay special attention…

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High-Performance Computing Clusters (HPCC) and Cassandra on OS X

Our new parent company, LexisNexis, has one of the world’s largest public records database: “…our comprehensive collection of more than…

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Delta Architectures: Unifying the Lambda Architecture and leveraging Storm from Hadoop/REST

Recently, I’ve been asked by a bunch of people to go into more detail on the Druid/Storm integration that I…

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Diction in Software Development (i.e. Don’t be a d1ck!)

Over the years, I’ve come to realize how important diction is in software development (and life in general). It may mean…

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