Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves
A hidden file in iOS 4 is regularly recording the position of devices.
Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan have discovered that iPhones and 3G iPads running iOS 4 are regularly recording the location of devices into a hidden file.
Hadoop: What it is, how it works, and what it can do
Cloudera CEO Mike Olson on Hadoop's architecture and its data applications.
Hadoop gets a lot of buzz in database circles, but some folks are still hazy about what it is and how it works. In this interview, Cloudera CEO and Strata speaker Mike Olson discusses Hadoop's background and its current utility.
Apple's segmentation strategy, and the folly of conventional wisdom
Ten years after an iPod powered rebirth, Apple's run continues unabated.
While it is almost heretical to challenge widely-held beliefs about loosely-coupled, open strategies prevailing over tightly-integrated, proprietary ones, Apple's debunking of conventional wisdom continues unabated. Love them or hate them, it helps to understand why they are winning.
What is data science?
The future belongs to the companies and people that turn data into products.
This report takes a detailed look at the promise of data science and the technologies and unique skill sets at the heart of this growing discipline.
Continuous deployment in 5 easy steps
One of the lean startup techniques I’ll be discussing at this week’s session at the Web 2.0 Expo is called continuous deployment. It’s a process whereby all code that is written for an application is immediately deployed into production. The result is a dramatic lowering of cycle time and freeing up of individual initiative. It has enabled companies I’ve worked with to deploy new code to production as often as fifty times every day.
Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles
I spent a lot of last year urging people to work on stuff that matters. This led to many questions about what that "stuff" might be. I've been a bit reluctant to answer those questions, because the list is different for everyone. I thought I'd do better to start the new year with some ideas about how to think about…