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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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