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data science

Data Science for Targeted Advertising: How to Display Relevant Ads by Leveraging Past User Behavior

Online advertising industry is bigger than you think The past decade has seen a huge growth in online advertising. It is an enormous industry with brands expected to pour over 30 billion of dollars in 2014. Online advertising provides companies with instant feedback and publishers more knowledge about their users. Advertisers are very interested in […]

IoT

BYOX, Security, UX, Responsibility

There are 2 sides to adopting mobility. First is desire for innovation, the opportunity to drive better business with new technologies and thus increase revenue. Second is the fear of changes, the threat of holes in new processes which could result in enormous losses. Today I’d like to talk about the balance between these two […]

Functional Programming

Solving the Santa Claus Problem Using OCaml

Santa’s problem Not much time left till Xmas… Have you ever wondered how Santa manages to do his hard work with elves and ? And why does he keep doing it? These questions bothered professor John Trono of St. Michael’s College in Vermont. He was worried about how Santa handles all that stuff so much, […]

DevOps

RRD and RRDtool, sar Graphs Using PyRRD

Rather beautiful and ostensive graphs, don’t you think? 🙂 This was always my weakness — representing dull statistic numbers in obvious and informative form — and if you share it with me, today I will tell you about RRD and rrdtool – rather easy and customizable tools for storing statistic data and building graphs from […]

Tools

JSP Tag Library with Scala (TagLib Resurrection User Guide)

What is dead may never die! ― George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire One can argue over what is dead and what is not for a long time. You can argue over anything, the main question is: is it worth doing that when you need to act? Necromancy has always been […]

Cloud

Cloud OCR Project: Learn to Develop for Windows Azure Today

A few months ago, we conducted a Cloud Development training course for our engineers. The attendees learned the main concepts of Cloud Computing, found out about the capabilities of the most popular cloud providers on the market, and learned the key design decisions for building highly available, scalable and fault-tolerant distributed systems in the cloud. […]

Amazon

AWS: 10 Things You’re Probably Doing Wrong as an Architect

Amazon Web Services is a powerful and mature cloud platform that keeps growing rapidly. Quite often, new features are added in such pace that many developers and architects barely have a chance to experiment with all of them on real projects. However, as with any cloud platform, the god is in the details. If you […]

Amazon

Getting More From AWS: the Spot Instances (via SDK for .NET)

We have discussed the basic principles of working with On-Demand instances of AWS web-services in the previous post. On-Demand instances are quite straightforward and have expected behaviour. But… what about something more stochastic and thus more interesting? Amazon EC2 instance types Amazon offers us several types of its compute instances: On-Demand, Reserved and Spot instances. […]

Android

Google Glass Development Without Glass

Here are the slides of my “Google Glass Development without Glass” presentation. As I promised, here is the follow-up blogpost with some code samples. If you haven’t seen my presentation, I strongly suggest clicking through the slides! 0.Intro Technologies emerge. Extremely. Wearable trend takes over the world. It seems like every week we start with […]

Amazon

The Not-so-short Introduction to EC2 Instances in AWS SDK for .NET

Today is the era of cloud computing: never-ending computing resources available on demand. Amazon is one of the biggest players on the market of cloud computing. It provides different cloud services: Elastic Cloud, Elastic Block Store, Simple Email Service, Cloud Drive and others. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) allows to launch virtual servers in the […]