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I recently started as a Big Data Engineer at The New Motion. While researching our best options for running a Hadoop cluster, I wanted to try out some of the features available in the newest version of Cloudera's Hadoop distribution: CDH5. Of course I could've downloaded their QuickstartVM, but I …

I just finished Stanford's Machine Learning course on Coursera, taught by Andrew Ng, and I must say, it was a blast! Not only have I learned a lot of interesting new stuff, I had a great time doing so. And silly as it may sound, I think Andrew Ng's remark …

About a week ago, a tweet caught my eye about a project called VirtPHP. Now, I don't follow many people from the PHP community anymore, because I've really grown to dislike PHP over the past few years, and I've mostly gone off to greener pastures. But I still follow a …

Monitoring and statistics are an indispensable part of the DevOps toolchain. Collecting and monitoring metrics used to be solely the domain of system engineers/system administrators and IT operations people. But nowadays, tools like StatsD make it almost trivial to measure anything and everything - and by extension monitor anything - on …

It's late night at the end of a nice Christmas day and I've just finished giving my Pelican Bootstrap 3 theme a nice update! In the past month the theme has been getting quite some attention, going by the number of stars (30) and forks (16) on GitHub. I realize …