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It still is a valid pattern. As disks get bigger, the harder it is to move the data and the more efficient it is to move the compute to the data.

"Does anyone have a use case where data is on a single machine and map reduce is still relevant?" No! MapReduce is a programming pattern for massively parallelizing computational t…

"A lot of people fail to understand the overheads and limitations of this kind of architecture. Or how hard it is to program, especially considering salaries for this skyrocketed. …

Two years ago in January 2010, Yangon had their first Barcamp. People were afraid to talk politics. Most of the Internet was firewalled. Aung San Suu Kyi was under house arrest. Tw…

Some photos of Aung San Suu Kyi giving the opening speech at Barcamp Yangon 2012. That's all.

I don't know; ML has a lot of applications and the bar for most people to be able to implement it is rather high. Lowering the bar so "mere mortals" can have some serious infrastru…

I am surprised that O'Reilly's "Learning Python" hasn't received more nods. Granted it's long (1200 pages as I recall), but it takes the reader on the full journey through all of P…