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TL;DR: Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) makes it easier for developers to work with databases by automatically translating between code and data. ORMs boost productivity and code maintainability but can introduce performance and data integrity challenges if not managed carefully. Using complementary tools (such as caching, connection pooling, and migration frameworks) and following best practices helps teams…
Querying Apache Hadoop Resource Manager with Python. I was recently asked to write a script that would monitor the running application on the Apache Hadoop Resource Manager. I wonder over to the Apache Hadoop Cluster Application Statistics API. The API allows to query most of the information that you see in the WEB UI. Information…
Here is a quick script. I wrote for a co-worker. var host = “localhost” var port = 27000 var dbslist = db.adminCommand(‘listDatabases’); for( var d = 0; d < dbslist.databases.length; d++) { var db = connect(host+”:”+port+”/”+dbslist.databases[d].name); var collections = db.getCollectionNames(); for(var i = 0; i < collections.length; i++){ var name = collections[i]; if(name.substr(0, 6) !=…
I will be attending the AT&T Developer Summit in Las Vegas. I will also be taking part in the Summit Hackathon. “The AT&T Summit Hackathon is the premier hackathon of the year for the AT&T Developer Program. This year will be focused on wearable technologies and participants will be able to choose between a Wearables Track…
Well, since my last blog entry I went to my first Hackathon, the Seattle Interactive Conference / SIC:// AT&T Hackathon. Ended up joining a team with two complete strangers, Joan Jasak and Arunabh Verma, and we end up presenting at the Conference and taking 3rd place. Check out the video http://vimeo.com/78582527
I wanted to write an App for my Android Tablet, something easy so I could get a basic understanding of what it would take to write an app. I figured that I could knock something out fairly quickly, but I didn’t know it would be this easy. I’m a fairly big user of Eclipse, so…
If you are like me and want to install git-core core from source instead of one to the many binary packages out or you just have a distro that does have a binary for it. Here is what you will need to get it installed. POSIX-compliant shell GCC – gnu c compiler GNU Interactive Tools…
After being told that I would need to take five days to recovery from a recent surgery and being informed that they would prefer me not to work on any of the system at work well under the influence of pain killers, I started looking for thing to kill time. Well trying to find something…
Ever needed a quick web server to share something with a Windows user from you Linux box. Python has really easy to use embedded HTTP Server. Just try the following.shell> python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9001 And point you web browser at http://localhost:9001 and see what happens. — Cheers
So December was an interesting month for me, with a few changes in my personal career and the holidays. I take a week off. Which of course lead me spending two weeks catching up on work and to top it off my boss or someone above him decided that we need to take look at…