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How i learned to stop worrying and love telling stories

How i learned to stop worrying and love telling stories

I’ve got tech, data, and media, and i’m not afraid to use them. Here’s my story, why you may care,…

Aug 29, 2016

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ScyllaDB achieves Cassandra feature parity, adds HTAP, cloud, and Kubernetes support

ScyllaDB, the open-source drop-in replacement for Apache Cassandra, is growing up. Version 3.0 closes the…

Nov 6, 2018

Processing time series data: What are the options?

Get your data from everywhere you can, anytime you can, they said, so you did.…

Sep 28, 2018

Knowledge graphs beyond the hype: Getting knowledge in and out of graphs and databases

What exactly are knowledge graphs, and what’s with all the hype about them? Learning to…

Sep 19, 2018

The past, present, and future of streaming: Flink, Spark, and the gang

Reactive, real-time applications require real-time, eventful data flows. This is the premise on which a…

Sep 11, 2018

Google can now search for datasets. First research, then the world?

Did you ever need data on a topic you wanted to research, and had a…

Sep 5, 2018

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