by edvorkin | May 29, 2013 | BigData, Blog, Cloud Computing, Groovy /Grails, Identity and Security, Java, Programming
Many companies have huge investment in Data Warehouse and BI tools and want to leverage those investments to process data collected by applications in MongoDB. For example, a company may need to blend clicksteam data collected by distributed MongoDB data storage with...
by edvorkin | May 19, 2013 | BigData, Blog, Groovy /Grails, Java, Programming
In this post I will share how to implement 10 most popular articles using rolling count algorithm and exciting distributed computation platform Storm. It is different from traditional BI, off-line approach, where data aggregated on some period of time. We will do...
by edvorkin | Mar 20, 2013 | Agile ALM, Blog, Cloud Computing, Identity and Security, Java, Photography, Programming
Twitter Storm is an open source real-time computation engine developed by a company called BackType that was acquired by Twitter in 2011 partially because Twitter uses Storm internally. Nathan Marz is the main contributor to the project. Storm can be used with any...
by edvorkin | Jan 30, 2013 | Agile ALM, Blog
My team recently moved from one centralized version control system (telelogic) to another, subversion. I know, critics may say, it’s 2013, why not Git, but there were some reasons for this decision. This transition sparked a debate how we should proceed with branching...
by edvorkin | Dec 15, 2012 | BigData, Blog
New challenges demand new approaches. For past 30 years, industry professionals have developed applications using relational databases. When ask, “What database do you use?” they expect to hear industry standards like Oracle or SQL Server. Relational databases rule...