Month: April 2017

This could be interesting and useful. A “scalable, advanced security analytics framework” built with parts from the Hadoop ecosystem.

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Metron™ as a Top-Level Project : The Apache Software Foundation Blog

https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache-software-foundation-announces-apache

This could be very beneficial for existing data lakes.

Amazon Redshift Spectrum – Run SQL queries directly against exabytes of data in Amazon S3.

https://aws.amazon.com/redshift/spectrum/

I recently had a binary tree question in an interview. I hadn’t had a case to work with them directly since Pascal. The work by Facebook to optimize decision trees seems interesting. I’ll probably see more reason to work with tree structures in the future, as machine learning popularity increases.

Evaluating boosted decision trees for billions of users | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code

https://code.facebook.com/posts/975025089299409/evaluating-boosted-decision-trees-for-billions-of-users/

Interesting data and infographics.

What programming languages are used late at night? – Stack Overflow Blog

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/04/19/programming-languages-used-late-night/