There are a lot of reasons to choose a specific technology. You can decide based on what skills you or the engineers around you have. You can decide on a new technology because it’s the right tool. But there are times when all other things are equal and the flip of a coin would suffice. …
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Contrary to speculation by some, Google’s decision for encrypting search data is motivated by the goal to make the web as a whole more secure and it’s not driven by economic interests. I think Google is silently forcing the internet to do what they should be doing on their own.
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If you have read my blog before, you’ll know that I am a big fan of Alfred (here). I love the shortcuts and the ability to make things quicker. One of the things I find myself doing quite frequently is looking for domains and their traffic counts on Alexa, Compete, and Quantcast.
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While trying to clone a repository from Github the other day on one of my EC2 servers and I ran into an SSL verification issue. As it turns out, Github renewed their SSL certificate (as people who are responsible about their web presence do when their certificate is about to expire). As a result, I …
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I setup MongoDB on my Amazon EC2 instance knowing full well that it would have to be backed up at some point. I also knew that by using XFS, I could take advantage of filesystem freezing in a similar fashion to LVM snapshots. I had remembered reading about backups on XFS with MySQL being done …
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I like to think I have been making the most of what’s available on my Mac. This means taking advantage of some obscure and some not so obscure apps. I want to go through some of those apps and a little about their usage to help others get some of the benefit I get. There …
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Not literally everywhere, but more places than usual. I have been looking for this solution for a long time and finally found it. Anyone who has ever worked around me knows that I do basically everything in Vi.
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As with any programming language, there is a bit of a learning curve with Pig. So here are a few common items that I found useful. If you know Pig, please feel free to add your own in the comments section.
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I know the title of this post is a mouthful, but it’s the fun of pushing envelope of existing technologies. What I am looking to do is take my log data stored on S3 (which is in compressed JSON format) and run queries against it. In order to not have to learn everything about setting …
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I have recently spent a few days getting up to speed with Flume, Cloudera‘s distributed log offering. If you haven’t seen this and deal with lots of logs, you are definitely missing out on a fantastic project. I’m not going to spend time talking about it because you can read more about it in the …
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