The Distillery Blog
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Bringing Big Tools to Big Data: Spark and Spark Streaming
- 2 months ago
- Vadim Sokoltsov
- Backend
Data is the oil of the 21st century — a valuable commodity prized and hoarded throughout the business world. In an attempt to turn users’ preferences into business profits, every internet activity is stored and analyzed. As a result, internet profile data is increasing rapidly, both in size and rate...
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Making a Rails App Move Faster: A Tale of Lessons Learned
- 2 months ago
- Andrey Oleynikov
- Development
In my experience, most performance improvement tasks take the following form: “This request is working too slow. We have to make it faster.” Sound familiar? In general, to find and remove all mistakes and nonsense parts in the program code, the request itself and all related actions...
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Building for Flexibility Using Finite State Machines in Django
- 2 months ago
- Dmitry Stepanenko
- Backend
Software projects often start with such innocence. A developer creates the basic functionality and then extends the functionality with various rules of domain logic. Project classes grow larger and more complex to accommodate all these changes. The classes gain a lot of different...
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