Category: Complex Event Processing
Jojuba Oil and Positive Thinking in the Jungle
I received an email a number of days ago from someone who was concerned that another blogger was painting me as “a negative person.” My impression was that they hoped I would comment in reply. In thinking how to respond, or if to reply at all, I thought of the irony of the “you are [...]
Read moreMore Fallacy and Misinformation in CEP-Land
I thought we had seen the last of the darkest days of folly, falsehoods and hype around “complex event processing” and then I read Why does ‘complex event processing’ have to be so complex? by Joe McKendrick. Here is some of the marketing nonsense: I recently had the opportunity to join David, along with Brenda [...]
Read moreProcessing Complex Events at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Here is an excellent Google TechTalk by Dr. Majorie Shapiro (LBL & LHC ATLAS), June 18, 2007, on processing complex events at the LHC called, Supersymmetry, Extra Dimensions and the Origin of Mass: Exploring the Nature of the Universe Using PetaScale Data Analysis. This is really what I would call “real-time CEP.” Bean collisions at [...]
Read moreTIBCO Silver v. Amazon EC2: First Impressions
Just coming off a ten day vacation, I was planning to write a few posts on a few “pure” scientific topics like string theory, complexity, and emergence. However, a few folks contacted me and asked me my opinion on TIBCO Silver; so, I thought I would at least blog on my first impressions. TIBCO’s [...]
Read moreDrinking the Koolaid at Magmasystems
Oh, how I am laughing today. FIrst, I was rolling on the floor about online salami attacks at E-Trade and Schwab, now kindred-spirt blogger Marc Adler at Citigroup has me laughing with his recent CEP marketing hype: You know that it’s been a good week for CEP when the Times starts covering it. – Marc [...]
Read moreCreative E-Trade and Similar Salami Scams – Ignorance is Bliss
Here is one of my favorite news stories of the week, Guilty Plea for Man Behind Creative E-Trade Scam. In this funny story, Michael Largent, 23, of Plumas Lake, CA, wrote a simple Internet script that opened more than 58,000 online accounts at places like E-trade and Schwab. Largent used fake names to automatically [...]
Read moreAnnouncing Amazon CloudWatch, AutoScaling and Load Balancing
AWS has announced the public beta of three new features for Amazon EC2: Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring AWS cloud resources, Auto Scaling for automatically growing and shrinking capacity based on demand, and Elastic Load Balancing for distributing incoming traffic across Amazon EC2 compute instances.
Read moreMahout on Elastic MapReduce: Running k-means Clustering
Following up on KMeans Clustering Now Running on Elastic MapReduce, Stephen Green has generously documented the steps that was necessary to get an example of k-Means clustering up and running on Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce (EMR) on the Apache Lucene Mahout wiki. Mahout on Elastic MapReduce by Stephen Green As a side note, there has been [...]
Read moreUploading Data to Amazon S3 Using CloudFront
Uploading data, for example your off-site backup files, to Amazon S3 is easier than you might think. Here are some basic steps with links. First, set up an Amazon AWS account if you don’t already have one. You will need a credit card (of course!). Then, create your Access Key and Secret Key (Access Identifiers). [...]
Read moreCloudFront LogAnalyzer on Amazon Elastic MapReduce
The Amazon Elastic MapReduce team has a sample application, CloudFront LogAnalyzer, designed to analyze Amazon CloudFront access logs. This tool provided users with the power of Amazon Elastic MapReduce to quickly turn access log data into actionable intelligence. Access logs are activity records about all requests delivered through Amazon CloudFront and contains a valuable set [...]
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