Pragmatic Programming Techniques

Hadoop is getting more popular these days. Lets look at what it is good at and what not. The Map/Reduce Programming model Map/Reduce off...

One common problem of machine learning is the " curse of high dimensionality ". When there are too many attributes in the input d...

Some notes about Memcached. Here is its architecture. How it works ? Memcached is organized as a farm of N servers. The storage model ...

A typical example is the "market-basket" problem. Lets say a supermarket keep track of all the purchase transactions. Each purch...

Legacy system may sounds like a negative term, but in fact it is the result of a successful system. Most legacy systems lies in the core bus...

If you are lucky enough to keep the engineers who are knowledgeable about the current system around, then conducting a formal "Architec...

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a type of Machine Learning other than "supervised learning" (having a teaching phase that shows the...