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Hudson/Jenkins With RVM and PhantomJS
13 January 2012
Setting up Hudson/Jenkins to work RVM (Ruby Version Manager) and PhantomJS (for headless JavaScript testing) can be painful. This post will show you how to easily set them up on your own server.
ReadClustering of sparse data using python with scikit-learn
13 January 2012
Coming from a Matlab background, I found sparse matrices to be easy to use and well integrated into the language. However, when transitioning to python’s scientific computing ecosystem, I had a harder time using sparse matrices. This post is intended to help Matlab refugees and those interested in using sparse matricies in python (in particular, for clustering)
ReadHow to Measure Latency Distribution using Amazon CloudWatch
9 January 2012
By default, web services hosted in AWS behind an Elastic Load Balancer have their response rates automatically tracked in CloudWatch. This lets you easily monitor the minimum, maximum, and average latency of your services.
ReadGet Your Company To Blog More With A Game
19 December 2011
At Bizo we try to blog fairly often. But writing blog posts with any degree of frequency at a startup is tough - there are often ten other important tasks that needed to be done yesterday. Finding the time to sit down and write a post when you have features to build, code to review and the occasional meeting is difficult to say the least.
Read4 tips from the trenches of Amazon Elastic MapReduce and Hive
15 December 2011
Some things you can learn from others, and some things you can only learn from experience. In an effort to move some knowledge from the latter category into the former, here are four things we've learned the hard way while working with big data flows using Hive on Amazon's Elastic MapReduce:
ReadPromises in Javascript/Coffeescript
13 December 2011
This happens often. You’re humming along writing some awesome Javascript code. At first everything is neat and organized. Then you add a feature here, an AJAX call there and before your once lovely codebase has turned into callback spaghetti.
ReadIAM for DevOps Organizations
8 December 2011
I gave a talk last month at the Advanced AWS Meetup on how we're using IAM.
ReadSVG Charts, Done Right.
21 November 2011
Here at Bizo we like many companies use charts visualizations in our products. They are fantastic tools for making the lives of our users easier. But unfortunately most charting libraries aren't that great. Some, like Google's visualizations have overly complex apis where you have to contort your data into intermediary objects and zero pad data. Others like flot have poor default options that require you to override almost every option just to get something that looks halfway presentable
Read5 minute web framework review : reading params
1 November 2011
Through various experiments, hackdays, conversations with other developers, etc. I've found myself experimenting with a few different web frameworks. The focus has been mostly simple webapps / simple REST services written in scala that return html or json. I thought it might be interesting to dive into some focused comparisons in a series of posts.
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