by edvorkin | Jun 3, 2014 | BigData, Blog, Cloud Computing
Recently I had a conversation with an ops engineer on my team about why micro-service architecture makes a lot of sense and why we should embrace it. Most of our applications are monoliths built over years and having new, small micro-services is something new for our...
by edvorkin | Dec 20, 2013 | Blog
Recently I came across Google Code Jam problem called Alien Language. The idea is to figure out based on a given pattern if work exist in the dictionary or not. Here is the task description from Google Code Jam: Problem After years of study, scientists at Google Labs...
by edvorkin | Sep 11, 2013 | Blog
Today, with a group of other professionals from the industry, I was helping students at Cornell Tech NYC campus to practice real life job interviews. During my mock interviews and following conversation with students I learned quite a lot about Cornell’s Master...
by edvorkin | Sep 2, 2013 | Blog, Storm
This post is about how to scale Business Rule engine to Big Data volume, processing huge number of events in distributed, scalable fashion. But firsts, let understand what is a business rule, rule engine and when we want to use one. Business rule is a declarative...
by edvorkin | Jun 24, 2013 | Blog
Creating a killer technical presentation is hard. If it were easy, we would not see so dramatic a difference between presentations. Some of them are engaging and entertaining, have a long lasting impact and get the message delivered and some are dull and boring and...
