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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

How companies can use ideas from mass production to create business with data. That was the provocative thesis of a much-talked-about article from 2003 in the Harvard Business Review by the US publicist Nicolas Carr. Marketers use big data and artificial intelligence to find out more about the future needs of their customers.

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Fast key-value stores: an idea whose time has come and gone

The Morning Paper

Factor VI in the 12-factor app manifesto , “Execute the app as one or more stateless processes,” to be dropped and replaced with “Execute the app as one or more stateful processes.” session state that you want to survive an application process crash), and to keep the application server/services layer stateless.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

More specialized data mining applications like supply chain optimization and fraud detection are out of scope, as well as the implementation details of the data mining process (such as evaluation of model quality). Outputs of this tier can be used to configure downstream processes.

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