Mastering the business side of SaaS and IaaS
You probably know Gigaom and its expertise on, among other things, cloud. You probably know David Linthicum and Janakiram MSV as renowned cloud experts, and you may know myself from work we’ve done with Gigaom and Interworks as an up and coming vendor. Given that, you are most likely to be interested in our webinar […]
Read More →Data Modeling for APIs. Part 2: REST and JSON
In the second part of this series of posts we start looking into the implications of the choice between a SOAP and a REST approach to implementing APIs from a data modeling perspective. For most people a SOAP API is associated with an XML data model, while a REST API is associated with a JSON […]
Read More →A small step for Impala, a big step for SQL-on-Hadoop. More to come, hopefully.
Recently Cloudera published the results of a benchmark performed internally, comparing its own SQL-on-Hadoop implementation (Impala) against a carefully selected competition composed of Hive and an undisclosed RDBMS and showing that Impala outperforms both. As Gigaom’s Derrick Harris was quick to point out, beating Hive is not something to write home about as Hive is […]
Read More →Data Modeling for APIs. Part 1: setting the stage
Lately we’ve been engaged in the design of a data model for a project aiming to deliver an API for analytics in the domain of energy. As there is an ongoing debate in the consortium wrt to the type of API that will be implemented (RESTful vs Web Services), we have been asked to provide […]
Read More →Agile business intelligence: reshaping the landscape
With all the intense activity going on lately, i realized i did not actually make a note of something quite significant: the report that was recently published via GigaOM and Linked Data Orchestration on the new landscape in Business Intelligence. The report is titled “Agile business intelligence: reshaping the landscape” and highlights the crucial factors […]
Read More →Cloudstack Collaboration Conference EU 2013
Last week i had the pleasure of attending the European Cloudstack Collaboration Conference in Amsterdam, as i was kindly invited by Citrix Cloud Advocate, Reuven Cohen. I am most certainly glad i could make it, not only because it was a well-organized event overall (great venue, almost everything functioning smoothly – except for the mix-up […]
Read More →World Wide Web Conference 2012: From technical to socio-technical
Extending the reach and scope of the Web I just returned from this year’s edition of the World Wide Web conference, which also happened to be my first. I can honestly say that it was by far the best conference i have been to. The quality of every session i attended was very high, the […]
Read More →Tim Berners Lee Keynote in World Wide Web Conference 2012
Distributed, Collaborative Decision Making? Music to my ears – we should be doing more of that On the opening day of www2012, Tim Berners Lee gave an inspirational keynote. I found it to be inspirational because it focused on what matters most, imho: the social and political aspects of technical design and decisions and the interplay among […]
Read More →A report on the 2010 Extended Semantic Web Conference
This year’s edition of ESWC, which took place between May 30th and June 3rd in Crete, was the first one in the series of Semantic Web Conferences under the ‘Extended’ (instead of former ‘European’) title and justified this by being the scene for the lively international Semantic Web community. In a nutshell, it was interesting and […]
Read More →Semantic Web and CMS: a symbiotic relationship
How structured data and CMS can work with each other Working in a company that specializes in Knowledge Management and does pretty much all of its front-end development in a web-based environment, you quickly come to the realization that a good CMS is a key success factor. ‘Good’ in this context means everything you would […]
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