Devops is hot! And these days, everyone is diving into the provisioning game. I was invited by the company I work for, to visit the Devops Days together with some fellow engineers and the talks there really inspired me! Always eager to learn a new thing or two, I set …
more ...Now that Bootstrap 3 final has been released, I've updated the Pelican theme I built for this site accordingly. The theme was already on GitHub, but now that things have stabilized, I'm officially releasing version 1.0 of pelican-bootstrap3! Luckily for me, Bootswatch also updated their Bootstrap 3 compatible themes …
more ...In my last blog I mentioned that I've had some security-related problems with my previous VPS. A commenter asked what happened and how bad it was, and he also wanted to know why I chose Pelican for this site. I'm taking his suggestion to write about it on my blog …
more ...After a brutal attack on my VPS left the previous iteration of this website in shambles, I decided to make things easier and more fun for the next version. Instead of using an monolithic and oudated CMS built with an ancient version of a framework in a language I've grown …
more ...It's been a while since I wrote on this blog. The main reason for that is that I've been working on my Bachelor thesis since July, and I had to wrap up all other courses before that, so I've been quite busy. I'm halfway through the alotted time for the research now, so I'll be presenting my findings in the beginning of November. Today I want to talk a bit about the research I'm doing and the interesting things I found out already. Note that, although the blogs I write tend to be mostly technical-oriented, this article will put emphasis less on technology and more on the functional aspects of BigData. In later articles I will detail installation processes of Hadoop, and delve into using Hadoop and related systems.
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