Like all other categories of capital investment — machinery, plants, patented technology, unique processes — we should be investing in data to produce an asset with an expected return. But this isn’t how it works much of the time. Instead, companies invest to connect disparate systems. The “return” comes in the form of a data Read the full article…

All data tells a story—a story to be investigated. The beautiful thing about data is its ability to avoid all subtext and ambiguity and go straight to the facts. Swimming through large amounts of it however, can easily become overwhelming and unproductive. In order to be able to critically instigate the data and its story, Read the full article…

systemd ships as the default process manager on Ubuntu 15; get the ongdb systemd service file to install and learn about the configuration. systemd has a lot of great features and I encourage you to check it out as it’s a big improvement IMO from SystemV and Upstart. If you’ve started working with systemd to manage your ongdb process, Read the full article…