If you want to build a robust machine learning model, the most important ingredient is data – but keep in mind that tuning your model will rely on devising a systematic way to store and query that data! In this post, we explore a project to understand a large dataset of Amazon reviews and predict start ratings using open source sentiment analyzers and the MongoDB ecosystem.
Read moreStars, forks, likes, upvotes, downloads. In a world where user metrics rule, why don’t more technical projects translate their docs to reach more global users?
Read moreImagine you have a new engineer joining your team and you need to provide passwords for access to critical systems. Or you need to send a sensitive file to a client. Or you need to share encryption keys with a team member. What do you do?
Read moreData privacy regulations are gaining traction domestically and internationally. Business and tech leaders would do well to take notice and re-consider their approach to privacy.
Read moreThere’s no doubt public cloud providers have transformed the technology landscape; in this post we retrace the evolution of the cloud to gather clues into where the industry is headed next.
Read moreThe things we make are not user-friendly by accident; we have to make them that way.
Read moreSecurity is by definition an inconvenience. At the very least, it’s about making access to data as challenging as possible for the baddies, conveniently measured in computation time.
Read moreProtocol buffers are a method for serializing data to efficiently send between programs. The structure is reminiscent of XML or JSON, but unlike these more commonly used text-based serialization methods, protocol buffers are designed to produce extremely compact messages using a binary format.
Read moreContexts are a critical part of services implemented in Golang. Although we see them often in server interfaces, they can be mysterious to developers implementing request handlers.
Read moreTo say we are not at our most empowered when trying to communicate in an unfamiliar language is a bit of an understatement.
Read moreThe most exciting applications coming out these days are the ones that aim big — aspiring to reach a global audience of users across regions, languages, timezones, and data centers.
Read moreGood software development achieves complexity by describing the interactions of simple components. Of course, this is harder than it sounds, and if Mark Twain had been a software developer he would have likely said: “if I had more time, I would have created a simpler design.
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