This could be very beneficial for existing data lakes.
Amazon Redshift Spectrum – Run SQL queries directly against exabytes of data in Amazon S3.
Decision Trees at Facebook
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
Coding Day and Night
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/
Shadow Broker released code may be in the wild
Reports about Windows backdoor infecting a large number of computers. Patch your computers, folks!