• Wild Wild West Chili Cook-off

  Congratulations to all of the winners of our Annual Engineering Wild Wild West Chili Cook-off! On October 11th, 2013, hundreds of us took over a wild west town in Half Moon Bay to participate in Engineering's 2nd Annual Chili Cook-off. Some spent the day serving up their tasty and creative chili…

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• Big Data News: Zettaset and Actian Partner on Hadoop Solutions, Domino's Picks Splunk

  Big data news this week includes data management and analysis on many fronts, such as Zettaset and Actian partnering on Hadoop solutions; Oxdata releasing a new H2O Prediction Engine; Cloudera and Comverse partnering; and Domino's Pizza using Splunk to help streamline operations and predict…

• Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 25th, 2013

  Hey, it's HighScalability time: Test your sense of scale. Is this image of something microscopic or macroscopic? Find out . $465m : Amount lost in 45 minutes due to a software bug . Where? Where else...the finance industry. Quotable Quotes: …

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• LASCON 2013 Report – Second Morning

  Everyone shuffles in slowly on the second morning of the con. I spent the pre-keynote hour with other attendees sitting around looking tired and comparing notes on gout symptoms.  (PSA: if the ball of your foot starts hurting really bad one day, it's gout, take a handful of Advil and go to your…

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