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The Reality Check for NI Startups : #northernireland #code #startups #nocode #fdi #outsourcing
Disclaimer: Everything here is an opinion, the facts (as usual in NI) are very hard to pin down. Comment, tell me I’m wrong, it’s all fine if it makes the NI tech/startup scene a better place. This is every startup in Northern Ireland looking for a coder to build their product right now. The odds…
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Time For A Change? #algorithms #ml #ai #business #data
My first WordPress blog post was back in October 2008, my first blog post goes back way before then in 2000. Twenty-one years of knowledge, insight and, let’s be honest, nonsense. While most folk know me for the big data thing, whether that’s Hadoop, Spark, Kafka or Pulsar. What I want to do now is…
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Apache Kafka vs Apache Pulsar #kafka #pulsar #streaming @digitalis_io
It’s been a long lockdown few months….. so not much posting. I did, however, write a comparison of Apache Kafka and Apache Pulsar for my employer Digitalis. Enjoy!
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Tales from the Frontline of Kafka – #kafka #confluent #podcast
Listen now >>>>> https://developer.confluent.io/podcast/tales-from-the-frontline-of-apache-kafka-devops-ft-jason-bell The podcast has been up a while now but I’ve been busy. It was definitely fun to do. There’s a lot of opinion especially about how teams, developers and others embrace Kafka. We also confirmed that Dave Klein is not omnipresent, I was convinced that he was.
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Selling API Access – Three Steps to Customer Success – #api #programming #software #business #data
Application Programming Interfaces (API) are is a method for developers and website owners to connect their product to another product. For example, think about all the tools that use Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to get a customer’s data, developers will more than likely be using the respective API to connect and access the data. I’ve…
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Three Things Retailers Can Do Right Now – #COVID-19 #retail #ecommerce #startups #fashion #restaurants #fastfood #bricksandmortar
Retailers are feeling the impact of COVID-19 as the landscape of how people move, interact and generally get on with day-to-day life. The ones I’ve been talking to have seen drastic falls in footfall and takings. As you can assume, they are naturally worried. For the first time ever I managed to enter and exit…
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Jason, Jase and Jade – The @skillsmatter tribute #ClojureX #conferences #events
The sad news began to stream in during yesterday afternoon, that Skillsmatter had gone into administration. I’m sure some of us have been in the same situation and have been in an organisation when this kind of thing has happened, it’s no fun. What I did witness was the outpouring of thanks and support, this…
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I Shutdown DeskHoppa, here’s why. #DeskHoppa #startups
Yesterday I shut down DeskHoppa. It wasn’t an easy decision but it was the right decision. It surprised a few people that I’d do such a thing and there were a few messages from dear friends wondering if I’d made the right call. And no, I didn’t delete the code but I did delete all…
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Influencers and Hotels: A system to measure the effectiveness…. #influencers @funforlouis #youtube #marketing #instagram
Remember the old data science T-shirt? “In God we trust. All others must bring data.” It’s all about measurement Measurement is always important, especially for brands, without it you can’t measure return on investment. A lot of marketing campaigns are like that, just throw it out there and hope that someone clicks on the link…
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Strata London Talk Slides and Code. #stratadata #kafka #dl4j
Proof if proof were needed…. so Strata London was an absolute pleasure to talk at. Those who know me know I’m a big fan of the conference, so to talk at it was an additional boost. Who knew that Strictly data could cross boundaries like that. The slides are available on the Strata website and…
It's All A Bet - MLOps, DevOps, AI and Synthetic Data Design 