A universe in 32 K, an icon of British game development, and the urtext of a genre of space-combat simulations, the sheer scope of David Braben and Ian Bell’s game of combat, exploration, and trade can inspire awe even today.
The best graphic adventure ever made for the Commodore 64 and the starting point of the LucasArts tradition of saner, fairer puzzling, this intricately nonlinear and endlessly likable multi-character caper deserves a spot here despite a few rough edges.
GitHub Copilot is a powerful AI tool that helps you write code faster and better. Join Scott Hanselman and Mark Russinovich as they use GitHub Copilot to create a fun and interactive application from scratch. You will learn how LLMs that power GitHub Copilot work under the cover, LLM capabilities and limitations, and the difference between finetuning and prompt engineering. Whether you are a beginner or an expert, it will inspire you to explore new possibilities with GitHub Copilot and LLMs
SQL Data Lens is optimised for the unique features of InterSystems IRIS & Caché. It combines many tools with an intelligent SQL editor to provide easy access to your databases.
Kappa Architecture is a software architecture pattern. Rather than using a relational DB like SQL or a key-value store like Cassandra, the canonical data store in a Kappa Architecture system is an append-only immutable log. From the log, data is streamed through a computational system and fed into auxiliary stores for serving.
Kappa Architecture is a simplification of Lambda Architecture. A Kappa Architecture system is like a Lambda Architecture system with the batch processing system removed. To replace batch processing, data is simply fed through the streaming system quickly.
But why?
Kappa Architecture revolutionizes database migrations and reorganizations: just delete your serving layer database and populate a new copy from the canonical store! Since there is no batch processing layer, only one set of code needs to be maintained.
The purpose of the serving layer is to provide optimized responses to queries. These databases aren’t used as canonical stores: at any point, you can wipe them and regenerate them from the canonical data store. Almost any database, in-memory or persistent, might be used in the serving layer. This also includes special-purpose databases, e.g. for full text search.
Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that brings together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow’s technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, security, and the web.
Strange Loop was created in 2009 by software developer Alex Miller and is now run by a team of St. Louis-based friends and developers under Strange Loop LLC, a for-profit venture.
Some of our guiding principles: No marketing. Keynotes are never sold to sponsors. The conference mailing lists are never sold or given to sponsors. Tech, not process. Talks are in general code-heavy, not process-oriented (agile, testing, etc). There are many fine speakers, topics, and conferences in the process area. This is not one of them. Technology stew. Interesting stuff happens when you get people from different areas in the same room. Strange Loop has a broad range of topics from academia, industry, and a touch of weirdness.
Apache Impala vs Presto: What are the differences?
What is Apache Impala?Real-time Query for Hadoop. Impala is a modern, open source, MPP SQL query engine for Apache Hadoop. Impala is shipped by Cloudera, MapR, and Amazon. With Impala, you can query data, whether stored in HDFS or Apache HBase – including SELECT, JOIN, and aggregate functions – in real time.
What is Presto?Distributed SQL Query Engine for Big Data. Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine for running interactive analytic queries against data sources of all sizes ranging from gigabytes to petabytes.