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!

PTC acquires Thingworx

I follow this company since some time ago, they are evolving on IoT arena with a strong platform solution. I also follow the evolution of OpenRemote, and I’m willing to see how it evolves. Related to thingworx it was a question of time that someone came and buy it. In the case of PTC, they … Read more

Desafío sur del Torcal

Es la primera vez que me enfrentaba a la distancia de la maratón. Hacerla en montaña es más liviano que correrla por asfalto, al menos para mi. La existencia de esta prueba que tiene muy poco desnivel hace más sencillo el reto. Muy contento con la manera que fue el día, piernas menos cansadas de … Read more

Magic quadrant BI, 2008 – 2013

I want to store this picture to review it in the future, and try to see if my bets are right with respect the market evolution. I got it right on: Tableau, that I continue feeling that the solution is impressive. SAP, their evolution is for me a little bit stuck. I failed on: Microsoft, … Read more

HeartBleed vulnerability

Some basis I’ve learned about this issue. OpenSSL is an open-source implementation of SSL.  It is not the only implementation of SSL, and is not even the primary implementation of SSL.  Most vendors have their own implementation of SSL and TLS, which is directly related. OpenSSL is available as an installed package, or as a … Read more