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Managing Big Data with Google Cloud Datalab

The Google Cloud Datalab?is Google’s answer to big data exploration, analysis and visualization. All cloud service providers are competing intensely to close the loop of offerings in the realm of

REST vs. SOAP – SOAP’s Revenge

The year was 1999, the internet was blooming, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) burst onto the scene, based on the latest and greatest dev: XML. SOAP had its 15 minutes of

The Big Data Illusion

Data is king. Everyone knows that. Big Data has been on the buzzword most wanted list for a while now, along with machine learning, Hadoop and Spark. Companies eagerly collect

Should Everyone Learn to Code?

Software is eating the world, as Marc Andreessen said. More and more functions that used to require people are controlled by software. The demand for software engineers is on the

Looking Back at the Mighty Function

One of the most basic building blocks of programming is the function. You call some piece of code, passing some parameters and you get back a returned value. If you

Microsoft Azure Data Lake Services

While Amazon Web Services is leaving no strings behind and continuously striving to complete the loop in being a provider of end to end data services, Microsoft Azure is not

Amazon Launches QuickSight

A slew of recent product releases in the world of Amazon Web Service (AWS) indicate Amazon’s hurry to complete its portfolio of offerings in the world of Big Data. They