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A small step for Impala, a big step for SQL-on-Hadoop. More to come, hopefully.
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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…

Jan 15, 2014
Data Modeling for APIs. Part 1: setting the stage
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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…

Jan 13, 2014
Cloudstack Collaboration Conference EU 2013
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Cloudstack Collaboration Conference EU 2013

Last week i had the pleasure of attending the European Cloudstack Collaboration Conference in Amsterdam,…

Nov 27, 2013
World Wide Web Conference 2012: From technical to socio-technical
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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…

Apr 23, 2012
Tim Berners Lee Keynote in World Wide Web Conference 2012
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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…

Apr 23, 2012
A report on the 2010 Extended Semantic Web Conference
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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,…

Jun 16, 2010

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