Some good Cassandra, Lucene presentations and misc Comp-Sci posts

About 2 months ago I attended the Cassandra Summit at San Francisco. Yes, I've been meaning to write this blog for a while now. I was surprised (pleasantly) to see such a good turn out. Lot of energy and real world use cases. I didn't get to attend all the talks of course, but all the slides and videos are online. Here are some good ones:

• https://speakerdeck.com/mheffner/time-series-metrics-with-cassandra
• http://www.slideshare.net/jaykumarpatel/cassandra-data-modeling-best-practices
• http://www.slideshare.net/SergeyPetrunya/mysqlconf2013-mariadbcassandrainteroperability

A few JVM related posts worth reading:

• http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/2013/07/c-like-java-for-low-latency.html
• Safepoints, memcpy, and Unsafe.copyMemory 
• Mechanically sympathetic Functional Programming (ahem Scala)
  

Go language and reactions:

• http://uberpython.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/why-im-not-leaving-python-for-go/
• http://andrewwdeane.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-reliability-of-go.html 
• http://golang.org/doc/faq#exceptions

If you like the Markdown syntax and want a good, no fuss editor for writing documents:

• http://markdownpad.com - for Windows users (paid version can even do tables) 
• http://dillinger.io - for in-browser use

Some Comp-Sci stuff to keep your (my) mind fit:

• Github's syntax coloring using Bayesian classifiers 
• Bayes network for code recommendations 
• Markov models - http://pkghosh.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/smarter-email-marketing-with-markov-model/
• Neural nets - http://blog.forecast.io/cleaning-radar-images-using-neural-nets-computer-vision/
•  A comprehensive path-finding library for grid based games
• (Geo hashing) Slightly old but still a fun encoding scheme 
• Search engine basics with cool tools
• Switch statement implementations in C/C++

Scala and Spark related videos:

• Spark Streaming: Fast Distributed Stream Processing with a High-Level API
• Scalable and Flexible Machine Learning with Chris Severs and Vitaly Gordon

DB:

• BDB is now AGPL. Out with BDB, in with LMDB
  
• PG and MySQL driver internals 
• The write cache: Swap insanity tome III
  

2 Lucene related presentations worth reading: 

• Personalized-Search-on-the-Largest-Flash-Sale-Site-in-America 
• Rapid-pruning-of-search-space-through-hierarchical-matching

Until next time!