Successful first deployment of Apache Spark on a production server. Yep… I could add the line on my resume. Right now, we have set 24 cores, 72 GB of memory […]
Business Agility, or how IT Should Inspire Business
This morning, I hit the road for a quick 20-minute ride to RTP (Research Triangle Park), to attend a workshop on business agility, organized by Eliassen Group. Animated and moderated […]
Performances of the Raspberry Pi in Programmez! 195
Following the benchmarks I did on the Raspberry Pi, Programmez! Magazine has published more of my benchmarks, both on CPU and storage. I compare more extensively the CPU performance of the […]
Look at What Was in the Mail Today
Nope, this is not a check. Unfortunately. Storage on the Raspberry Pi is pretty limited to the microSD card, which qualities greatly differ – see benchmark. If you want to […]
Experimenting Can Cause Breakdown
It had to happen: playing with my WordPress finally killed it. I have not lost anything but a little time. This website will be back up to full speed soon with […]
A Pi for a Champ
Okay, self congratulations are probably not a good sign of humility, but I still wanted to share the news with you, my loyal readers. After being an IBM Champion in […]
Welcome Pi 3
So I received my Raspberry Pi 3. If you are slightly interested in Raspberry Pi, you are already aware of its release as of February 29th. Now that I am […]
Placemeter, or how to Quantify Real Stuff in this Digitalized World
If I understood the value prop correctly, Placemeter is to brick and mortar what Google Analytics is to the web. When I met Alexandre (Alex) Winter, their CEO, I was […]
More Transparency Thanks to Data
OpenDataSoft is helping communities build portals where data can be easily accessible. Such communities can be cities, counties, universities, governments, and so on. Data can be traffic, school results, crime, […]