With all the recent intrigue surrounding the true origins of Mr. Bean, I am happy to report he joined me in London at the AI Expo couple of weeks ago. I cannot but thank him for helping me navigate the bewildering atmosphere of a technology show, including booths with folks explaining (with varying degrees of passion) why …
Some people say 3DX is better than the sliced bread, while others think there is still place for minor improvements. For example, if you want to download massive amounts of information from 3DX (as a part of an ETL process), both metadata and files, and you are dealing with a large database, you may want …
Rephrasing the old joke: everyone wants to implement digital twins, but not everyone is ready to help mom to clean the dishes. Jos Voskuil explains nicely on eBOM and mBOM: https://lnkd.in/dcbvE5i – and there is a point in that explanation that eBOM and mBOM must have a common unique system of identification of the elements …
We are frequently forced not to create brand new stuff, but to add shiny features to the existing solutions – and make sure nothing breaks. The existing solutions already make money and there are customers who are ready to buy them, they simply want that little high-tech extra on the top – without dramatic change …
Investigating performance problems is never a celebration. Components, installations, virtual machines or real boxes, configuration parameters and security are stacked together – with users painful moaning creating additional pressure. Have you ever experienced 3DX users complaining system is getting slow? Here are some basic ideas to jump-start your investigation: – F12 in the browser may …
Imagine, you are driving your car and the “check engine” light comes on. You need to call your dealer and schedule an appointment to have your car checked out and repaired. You make that call. You cannot expect your dealer to tell you – how long it will take to fix your car or how …
Day hardly passes without yet another news or article on advances of AI and related fields. We got BigDog and Atlas walking and demonstrating coordination of limbs and responsiveness till now restricted only for heavily hardware-optimised bio-creatures – us and our animal friends and neighbors. Berkeley Caffe and, even more relevant, Theano allow almost anyone to build their own deep learning environment, while major corporations like …
We are dealing with both relational and NoSQL databases and we are often involved in advising our customers on choosing better product for their unique circumstances. One of our favorites, MariaDB ColumnStore has number of immediate advantages for utilization in BI systems: Transaction support Powerful MySQL API Analytical functions Open Source For companies already using MySQL it may offer additional benefit of …
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Cassandra became a household name for the projects involving processing massive amounts of data in NoSQL environment. Cassandra, while shining at supporting the biggest distributed clusters installations, “this comes at the price of high write and read latencies.” In a recent scenario faced by our customer, Cassandra latencies were increasing dramatically during peak hours and clients started receiving …
Most people have rather straightforward experience buying or servicing a car, but the backend of auto-retail is far from trivial. Behind the scenes, cars are being shipped and handled through distribution centers, sold and serviced through the network of franchised car dealerships. Here we will discuss one of the major annoyances in the car retail …
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