SQL Server In-Memory value and use cases

Microsoft SQL Server 2014 has made it in the leader category of Forrester’s recent In-Memory Database Platforms, Q3 2015 report.

SQL Server 2014 was behind SAP’s Hana, Oracle TimesTen & IBM DB2 with BLU acceleration.  It was on pare with Teradata Intelligent Memory.  Those were the leaders.  Following were...

Instapaper - HTML Selector

I use Instapaper a lot.  I discovered it thanks to Hanselman’s blog.

The only way I found to stay on top of things in technology is to do an aggressive Technology Watch.  I do that by reading hundreds of articles found on the web per week:  blogs,...

Analysing Application Logs with DocumentDb

Azure DocumentDB is Microsoft Document-centric NoSQL offering in the cloud.

I’ve been working with it since Septembre 2014 and I wanted to share a use case I found it really good at:  log analysis.

Now that takes some context.

I have been working for a customer using Microsoft Azure...

Free ebook: Azure Machine Learning

You’re into Machine Learning, got into Azure ML, looked at my couple of blogs about it and want to take it to the next level?

Microsoft released an eBook for that exact purpose:

Free ebook: Azure Machine Learning (Microsoft Azure Essentials)

That book is targeted at...

Azure ML – Over fitting with Neural Networks

In a past post, I discussed the concept of over fitting in Machine Learning.  I also alluded to it in my post about Polynomial Regression.

Basically, over fitting occurs when your model performs well on training data and poorly on data it hasn’t seen.

In here I’ll give an example using Artificial Neural Networks.  Those can be...