All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

'Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. So many exciting new areas are being empowered by cloud that it is fascinating to watch. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling.

Analytics 136

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 136

Tim Kadlec

MARCH 10, 2015

As our understanding of performance on the web improves, we are starting to shift from the traditional metrics we’ve focused on. Things like load time and page weight are rightfully being given less focus as we move to more mature metrics like SpeedIndex that provide a better understanding of perceived performance. But that doesn’t mean we can dismiss page weight altogether.

Metrics 58

Metrics Mobile Testing Tools Testing 58

The Polyglot Developer

MARCH 12, 2015

I recently started making an application with Ionic Framework that made heavy use of images both remotely and locally. During this time, my goal was to present the images in a grid that looks good for all device sizes and orientations. One might think this would be an easy task because Ionic offers both grids and a responsive class, however, trivial was far from the case.

Programming 52

Programming Development 52

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. The rise of omni-channel retail that integrates marketing, customer relationship management, and inventory management across all online and offline channels has produced a plethora of correlated data which increases both

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

All Things Distributed

MARCH 10, 2015

'Every year I enjoy travelling to the South-by-South-West (SXSW) festival as it is ons of the biggest event with many Amazon customers present. Thousand of AWS customers and partners will be in Austin for SXSW Interactive and given the free flowing networking it is a very important feedback opportunity for us. But also many Amazon customers will be there for the Film and the Music festival, and I always enjoy getting feedback from those Amazon consumers and producers that are attending these fes

AWS 86

AWS Programming Network 86

The Polyglot Developer

MARCH 10, 2015

Have you ever needed to come up with a random string of characters say for a password? Maybe you’re looking for a random string of characters for an oauth 1.0 nonce. Maybe you’re in a job interview and you’re asked to generate a random alpha numeric string. Whatever the case, we’re going to look at generating a random string of characters of any given length using JavaScript.

Development 52

Development 52

The Polyglot Developer

MARCH 7, 2015

Recently I was tasked with reading a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) file using Java. In my project, the JSON file contained properties information to be used inside the application. There are many libraries available for reading or parsing JSON data in Java, but in particular we are going to be using the library found on json.org. The post Parse A JSON File With Java appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

Java 40

Java Availability Development 40