Netflix is a video streaming service that has a wealth of information about their user base likes, dislikes, general consumer habits, retention lengths and much more. Netflix uses their big data to commission original programming content that it knows will Read more…
Dark Data is the biggest piece of the pie (Datumize , n.d.) when it comes to Big Data and what lies beneath huge datasets of collected information. IBM has stated in a report that over 80 percent of all data Read more…
Big data is a term applied to datasets whose size or type is beyond the ability of traditional relational databases to capture, manage, and process the data with low-latency. (IBM, 2018) They share at least one or more of the Read more…
Although the terms “data warehouse” and “data mart” sound similar, they are quite different. It is important to first understand how they differ in order to define some characteristics and practical applications for each. Serra (2012) has a great explanation Read more…
All software systems can be grouped in either a 2-tier or a 3-tier formation. The former is essentially where all clients contain application and business logic code to read from a datastore themselves (STC, n.d.) and the latter by comparison Read more…
A client-server architecture/system is one where the server maintains all models of the backend datasets and business logic around taking and providing information to fulfill a service request from a client which in turn shows the representation thereof. The client/server Read more…
So if you’ve ever created users and given them specific permissions from with SQL or the commandline, you will be familiar with a statement called FLUSH PRIVILEGES. It is said that if you create a new user, or alter than Read more…
I was trying to install MySQL Community Server for Windows 10 using the standard .MSI installer provded from the MySQL website and the installer just hung, saying that there was 3 seconds remaining. About half an hour later, it still Read more…
I get this error quite a lot when trying to deploy an Android APK to an emulator. “Device supports x86_64, x86, but APK only support , all, armeabi-v7a” The good thing is that it is actually a very easy thing Read more…
Traditional database systems were a centralised powerful database server that housed all operations pertaining to the database. There are countless reasons that this is unsustainable when larger databases are employed, specifically for globally distributed companies and popular applications as already Read more…