by edvorkin | Sep 28, 2014 | BigData, Blog, Storm
“Big Data Analytics Beyond Hadoop: Real-Time Applications with Storm, Spark, and More Hadoop Alternatives” is a new book by Vijay Agneeswaran on the topic of Big Data. Author provides foundation why Hadoop, especially Map-Reduce computational model is not...
by edvorkin | Jun 4, 2014 | Blog, Cloud Computing
Micro-service architecture present a set of challenges that need to be addressed. Those include: 1. Operational overhead. Now instead of single monolithic application you have to : Deploy many small micro-services Monitor many small micro services. Provision hardware...
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...
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...
