Data Visualization 1
Game Time, Baby! 1
Hadoop 4
iPhone 2
Kafka 1
Linux 1
Python 1
Social 5
Who
I am a software engineer in Silicon Valley.
About
My interests include distributed computing, data mining, programming, data visualization, and the social web.
Recent Posts
Tech Exits: What You Should Know
After a long drought, some tech companies in the Valley (and abroad) are opting to file for IPOs. Meanwhile, goliaths like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are scooping up smaller startups in acquisitions. I thought it might be worth sharing some things that are worth knowing if you work in the valley.
Hortonworks YARN Developer Meetup Notes (October '12)
On Friday, I presented, "Building Applications on YARN," at the Apache YARN meet-up at Hortonworks. This post contains my slides, as well as notes about the meet-up.
Kafka Consumer Memory Tuning
Kafka consumers have a somewhat nuanced memory footprint due to buffering. I'll go over memory tuning for consumers to prevent out of memory exceptions.
Schedules & Scores API for Streaming Live Sports Stats
One of my side projects ("Game Time, Baby!":http://getgametimebaby.com) required a way to programmatically load realtime live sports scores and schedules via an API. This page contains a rundown of the various options and services available.
Killing Subprocesses in Linux/Bash
A common requirement when writing Bash scripts in Linux is to kill all a process and all of its child that were spawned. This tutorial describes various methods to prevent orphaned subprocesses.
Hadoop, Pig, and SQL
It is sometimes difficult for SQL users to learn Pig because their mind is used to working in SQL. In this tutorial, examples of various SQL statements are shown, and then translated into Pig statements.
BlackBerry Storm GPS
This example outlines how to get GPS working on a real BlackBerry Storm using Verizon Wireless with GPS and data services enabled.
Exploring the Twitter Stream
Lately, I've gotten interested in the Twitter stream. Last weekend, I downloaded the stream for about ten hours on Friday. Here's what I found.