Sometimes I just can’t get anything done. Sure, I come into the office, putter around, check my email every ten seconds, read the web, even do a few brainless tasks like paying the American E…
Build a Slick Little Miniature Weather Display Perfect for a Desk or Wall
Need an upgrade to that boring old thermometer outside the kitchen window? Adafruit put together a guide for a wonderfully compact little battery powered weather display.
Selective XML Indexes: Not Bad At All - Brent Ozar Unlimited®
Promises, Promises I said I’d follow up on this, and here it is. I’m by no means the world’s foremost authority on these, I just played with a simple example until I figured out what worked the best for my query. So you can all play along at home, I’m using XML we all have...
As we pass 2.5bn smartphones on earth and head towards 5bn, and mobile moves from creation to deployment, the questions change. What's the state of the smartphone, machine learning and 'GAFA', and what can we build as we stand on the shoulders of giants?
With the announcement of FPGA instances hitting the Amazon cloud and similar such news expected from FPGA experts Microsoft via Azure, among others, the
The Unusual Books That Shaped 50+ Billionaires, Mega-Bestselling Authors, and Other Prodigies | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
One of the questions I ask the most successful people I interview or meet is: “What book have you gifted most to others, and why?” Below is a mega-list of the most-gifted and favorite books of 50…
Neo4j With Scala: Neo4j vs ElasticSearch | Knoldus
Hello Graphistas, Are you missing this series :) ? Welcome back again in the series of Neo4j with Scala ;) . Let's start our journey again. Till now we have t
Real-time event aggregation at scale using Postgres w/ Citus
Citus is commonly used to scale out event data pipelines on top of PostgreSQL. Its ability to transparently shard data and parallelise queries over many machines makes it possible to have real-time responsiveness even with terabytes of data.
facetoe/pgtransform: Tool for comparing and modifying Postgresql databases.
Tools for comparing and modifying Postgresql databases at scale. - GitHub - facetoe/pgtransform: Tools for comparing and modifying Postgresql databases at scale.
Off-The-Shelf Hacker: Linux Pipes, Redirection and AWK - The New Stack
In the October 29th article, “Off-The-Shelf Hacker: Deploying And Testing The ESP8266-PIR Yard Sensor,” I briefly talked about capturing the data from the yard sensor, via the network, to a Linux machine for later analysis. Writing the data out to a file proved unreliable, so I suggested readers explore solutions on their own. As with all…