Tag: database

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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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    Hosting database on Kubernetes

    Background “We want to host Postgres database on Kubernetes. Can you help us?”. The client appears assertive and reluctant to resort to managed services. So…

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  • Census Data from Statistics Canada

    Statistics Canada carries census every 5 years, with 2016 being the last run. The census data by Statistics Canada provides a wealth of insights but…

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  • How imaging devices talk to each other (in DICOM)

    Overview In the previous post I briefly touched on DICOM as the crucial standard in medical imaging for both data exchanging and data storage. 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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  • DataStax Python Driver

    For someone with relational database background, analyzing data in Cassandra isn’t intuitive. There are two reasons. First, Cassandra data table is hardly updated or deleted…

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