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    A taste of IoT device tracking

    Last fall I worked on a demo project for IoT device tracking on AWS so I had some reading. Overview From a strategic level, as…

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    File storage vs object storage in the cloud

    File storage (e.g. NFS) used to be prevalent until object storage comes in for competition. The competition Traditionally, enterprise storage product lines are built around…

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  • Intro to Data Analytics Platform on Azure

    Having been in transactional data world for almost the entire career, recently I have to pick up quite a few things to catch up on…

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  • High Performance Computing

    Overview High Performance Computing (HPC) has recently been commoditized with the advent of commodity server hardware (x86 server), virtualization technology and cloud delivery model. It…

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  • Spark, Cassandra and Python

    In this post we touch briefly on Apache Spark as a cluster computing framework that supports a number of drivers to pipe data in, and…

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  • Intro to Big Data Projects

    Modern applications produce super large datasets beyond what traditional data-processing application can handle. Big data is a discipline that specialize in processing such data. For…

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