Hadoop ecosystem overview

Have taken a look at Hadoop lately?

People who do not know Hadoop think it’s a big data technology the same way SQL Server is a technology.

But Hadoop is more of an ecosystem of different modules interacting together.  This is its major strength and also the source of its major...

Strong AI & Existential Risks

There has been a recrudescence of hysterical talks about Strong Artificial Intelligence (AI) lately.

Strong AI is artificial intelligence matching and eventually going beyond the full human cognitive capacity.  Weak AI, by opposition, is the replication of some facets of human cognition:  face recognition, voice recognition, pattern matching, etc.  .

The...

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...