Open source Vs Proprietary software

I read some while ago this article about the use of “Open as a weapon“. This article and its thoughts came to my mind during these last couple of weeks when there have been a couple of security issues happening more or less at the same time. I’m referring to Open SSL heart bleed vulnerability. … Read more

AWS CloudFront

I have started to work with AWS CloudFront with the purpose of improving the time response of the store. Initial expectations: Have an easy way to engage with the services. Integrated and clear invoices explaining the consumed services and unit prices. Training. Concerns: Need to understand how AWS and Google services are evolving in the … Read more

Apache Hadoop

Apache Hadoop is an open-source software framework for storage and large scale processing of data-sets on clusters of commodity hardware. All the modules in Hadoop are designed with a fundamental assumption that hardware failures (of individual machines, or racks of machines) are common and thus should be automatically handled in software by the framework. They … Read more

Before Hadoop, big data

Big Data can be defined as high volume, velocity and variety information assets that demand cost-effective, innovative forms of information processing for enhanced insight and decision making. Big data is basically about a new set of algorithms, topology and use of resources that enable us to gather, analyze and show more data. Every day, we … Read more

Before Hadoop, distributed processing

I’m reading about Content Delivery Network (CDN) and I found the Apache Hadoop project. I have been shocked about the nature of the project, where this comes from and all the toolkit generated around it. It’s massive amount of information, but fascinating for me. Hadoop project comes from the need of requiring more resources for … Read more

Tiles on the wall

First line is a little bit slow, but when you understand they will not fail, you do quicker and quicker… Toothpicks is the typical way to separate the tiles with a small separation.

Kitchen is evolving

It has a different look, we have confidence the tiles do not fail, the speed has increased a lot and we find ourselves counting not tiles, but lines of tiles.      

Sales and product life-cycle

Today I was reading a huge amount of documentation related to business processes and I had some time to organize some ideas, so I tried to draw it to clarify myself getting some ideas from some pictures I have seen. They can be wrong, please correct me I need to learn!