• Exploring the Foursquare 'Taste Map'

  In order to deliver great personalized local recommendations, Foursquare needs to understand not only which places are the best, but also what makes places all over the world different from each other. Whether it's a dive bar with great late … Continue reading →

• New in the shop: 5" Octocat Figurine

  For years, the Octocat has been stuck in the realm of two dimensions—but no more! Now she's crawling off your laptop and onto your desk as a 5" vinyl figurine. Check out the Octocat in the GitHub shop.

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• Azure Data Center Comes to Australia as Microsoft Aims for Cloud Domination

  Company expands cloud footprint, partners with CoreOS, Cloudera, and rolls out a Dell server pre-integrated with Azure Read More

• Failure is Not An Option: Lessons Learned from Disasters

  Data Center World: Data center managers can draw both warnings and inspiration from studying disasters outside of their industry Read More

• Your life on Earth

  The BBC has a fun piece that shows changes over your lifetime. Enter your date of birth, gender, and height, … Tags: BBC , personalization , time series

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• Speak to Amazon Kinesis in Python

  My colleague Rahul Patil sent me a nice guest post. In the post Rahul shows you how to use the new Kinesis Client Library (KCL) for Python developers. -- Jeff ; The Amazon Kinesis team is excited to release the Kinesis ClientLibrary (KCL) for Python developers! Developers can use the KCL…

• Next Generation Genomics With AWS

  My colleague Matt Wood wrote a great guest post to announce new support for one of our genomics partners. -- Jeff ; I am happy to announce that AWS will be supporting the work of our partner, Seven Bridges Genomics , who has been selected as one ofthe National Cancer Institute (NCI)…

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