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Software Development

Big data: when single node is better than clustered
Thereâs a lot of hype about âbig dataâ and a general trend to try to apply Hadoop to almost every…
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Scala

Using Scala traits as modules, or the “Thin Cake” Pattern
I would like to describe a pure-Scala approach to modularity that we are successfully using in a couple of our…
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Scala

Using JavaCV with Scala and SBT
Recently Iâve been doing some simple face detection in a Scala-based project. The âindustry standardâ for such kind of tasks…
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Communications

How do iBeacons work?
iBeacons are certainly a trending topic recently. They allow indoor positioning, letting your phone know that you are in range…
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Enterprise Java

Amazon Elastic Map Reduce to compute recommendations with Apache Mahout
Apache Mahout is a âscalable machine learning libraryâ which, among others, contains implementations of various single-node and distributed recommendation algorithms.…
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Enterprise Java

Creating an on-line recommender system with Apache Mahout
Recently weâve been implementing a recommender system for Yap.TV: you can see it in action after installing the app and…
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Scala

Automatic generation of delegate methods with Macro Annotations
Macro Annotations are a new type of macros, which are one of the candidates for inclusion (see also comment by…
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Enterprise Java

Akka vs Storm
I was recently working a bit with Twitterâs Storm, and it got me wondering, how does it compare to another…
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Scala

ElasticMQ 0.7.0: long polling, non-blocking implementation using Akka and Spray
ElasticMQ 0.7.0, a message queueing system with an actor-based Scala and Amazon SQS-compatible interfaces, was just released. It is a…
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