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Re:Some people repeatedly win the Wisconsin Lottery. Do they play fair?
on Monday March 19, 2018 @04:08PM (#16622599)
> There cannot be strong evidence both for and against something,
Of course there can be. Multiple cases exist. Light as a particle and light as a wave.
Re:Building a chat app in 8 minutes with Phoenix
on Monday March 19, 2018 @03:53PM (#16622455)
Build implies something other than cut-paste or git clone ./make
This title is misleading.
Install a chap app in 8 minutes would be more appropriate, although really it's just sensationalism.
Re:Breaking the trillion-rows-per-second barrier with MemSQL
on Monday March 19, 2018 @02:54PM (#16621827)
Ad Tech has no need for realtime data viewing or aggregation (in this manner), even for platform log data. Offline parallel processing is the standard. Redshift is particularly efficient, while others use Spark or other ad-hoc solutions.
For users, you always want mediation/adjustment steps that (can) modify realtime data to provide timesliced totals. For developers/administrators, you want to be able to persist data. Running totals in memory are too fragile to be reliable. There is an assumption of errors, misconfigurations, and bad actors at all times in AdTech.