Recently, I did some testing with Tableau Desktop connecting to DataStax Cassandra using their newly released DataStax ODBC driver. Before the release of the DataStax ODBC driver, the only way to connect Tableau Desktop to DataStax was the DataStax Enterprise Connector (a.k.a. Hive Thrift Server). While Hive is a great analytic tool, it is somewhat slow. When…
Connecting Tableau to Google Cloud SQL
Before connecting your Tableau Application up to your Google Cloud SQL Instance, you will need to make sure that you have assigned an IP Address to the instance. You will also need to allow the network in which your Tableau application is located, access to the Google Cloud SQL Instance. First, I recommend that you…
A Day At Chihuly Garden and Glass
Chihuly Garden and Glass provides a look at the inspiration and influences that inform the career of artist Dale Chihuly. Located at Seattle Center, Chihuly Garden and Glass includes an Exhibition Hall, the centerpiece Glasshouse and a lush Garden. The Exhibition Hall contains eight galleries and three Drawing Walls, offering visitors a comprehensive look at Chihuly’s…
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is a distributed restful search and analytic tool that is built on the top of Apache Lucene for high performance. Elasticsearch features include: Real-Time Data Indexing Scalability High Availability Multi-Tenancy Full Text Search Document Orientation The flow of data never stops so the question is how quickly can that data become available. Elasticsearch indexes…
2014 AT&T Developer Summit
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…
SIC:// AT&T Hackathon 2013
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
Work Blog: Managing Your Linux Deployments with Spacewalk
I have been using Spacewalk for a while now and really like a lot of the built-in functionality. I have been using it to build out and manage a lot of my Red Hat, and CentOS installations. The latest thing I have been using it for it to manage is my Hadoop cluster build out…
What does Facebook consider an average day's worth of data?
Well according to this article from gigaom.com. The average day looks something like this. 2.5 billion content items shared per day (status updates + wall posts + photos + videos + comments) 2.7 billion Likes per day 300 million photos uploaded per day 100+ petabytes of disk space in one of FB’s largest Hadoop (HDFS)…
Big Data for Small Business
I have said it before and will say it again you don’t have to be fortune 500 company to use Big Data. Big Data is more about understanding your data, then it is about how big it is and understanding all your different data sources and gathering them into one place, so that you can…
CentOS 6.4 service virt-who won't start – work around
Here is the problem. [root@bob ~]# service virt-who start Démarrage de virt-who : Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/share/virt-who/virt-who.py”, line 33, in <module> from subscriptionmanager import SubscriptionManager, SubscriptionManagerError File “/usr/share/virt-who/subscriptionmanager.py”, line 24, in <module> import rhsm.connection as rhsm_connection ImportError: No module named rhsm.connection [FAILED] There is a simple work around. Install the Scientific…