Bringing Big Tools to Big Data: Spark and Spark Streaming
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...
Building for Flexibility Using Finite State Machines in Django
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...
DroidShoter — Making Application Screenshots With Various Resolutions, Using The Same Device
As you know, there are many different devices using Android. As a result, there are also an incredible number of displays with different combinations of resolution and pixel density to take into account, which makes the entire development process significantly more...
Painless Travis CI/CD for Android Project
Modern software development is far more “user”-friendly to developers than it used to be. GitHub, Heroku, and the huge Fabric family of tools make code review easy, deploy painless, and health monitoring pleasant. And when it comes to continuous integration, there is...
Using ProtoBuf for Huge Object Serialization
I want to share my experience with using ProtoBuf to optimize the size of transferred/cached objects. We at Distillery faced a problem that the size of Memcached objects are huge. We’ve come close to exceeding the Memcached server storage limit which can trigger the...
Processing Keyboard Events in the Attached Controller
We’ve been working on the Storgage application (not on the App Store yet) for the last few months, and we would like to share one of the techniques we used when developing it. Problem One of our app’s features is the use of the built-in instant messaging service for...
Facial Recognition for Personalized Emojis
So, we had this idea: What if you could use your child’s face as an emoticon in a text message? Instead of a punctuating a point with an everyday ?, wouldn’t it be more expressive and more enjoyable to send a small photo of your child’s beaming face? We decided to see...
Getting Started with Kubernetes on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
In this post I’ll outline the basics of getting Kubernetes running on top of AWS. When we are done, you should have a Kubernetes cluster running atop of AWS with a simple web application that is publicly accessible. What is Kubernetes? Simply put, Kubernetes is...