Continuous Delivery in depth #3
This will be the last installment in the "Continuous Delivery in depth" series. After the good and the bad, here comes the ugly. Ugly because of the amount of changes required: a pull request with 308...
View ArticleUXSpain 2017: understanding user needs from different perspectives
On 12-13 May 2017, the 6th edition of UX Spain took place. If there was a scale enabling us to measure when an event has reached its maturity, UX Spain would be, after this edition, at the top. The...
View ArticleEvolutionary feature selection in big datasets (Part I)
When we want to fit a Machine Learning (ML) model to a big dataset, it is often recommended to carefully pre-process the input data in order to obtain better results. The post Evolutionary feature...
View Article3 guards, 2 doors… Solution to the riddle!
Our participation at Spark Summit 2017 in San Francisco was once again a great experience. Not only because of the quality of the speakers, but the special atmosphere built up by Spark lovers. To...
View ArticleSparkArt! Part One: Exploring the depths of Mandelbrot Set with Spark
On March the 26th 2012, James Cameron and his submarine craft, Deepsea Challenger, explored the depths of the ocean down to 11km under sea level at 11.329903°N 142.199305°E, an infinitesimal point on...
View ArticleOne File System to ingest them all (and in Kafka bind them)
This post is about how to ingest data from different kinds of file systems by means of Kafka-Connect using a connector I’ve forged recently. The post One File System to ingest them all (and in Kafka...
View ArticleIntroduction to Deep Learning Part 1: Neural Networks
Deep learning applications are now truly amazing, ranging from image detection to natural language processing (for example, automatic translation). It gets even more amazing when Deep Learning becomes...
View ArticleGanesha, the Scrum Master’s God
Ever felt daunted by a new role? Remember that feeling when you have just started at a new company? As Scrum Master, the feeling is still relatively raw... In today’s modern company, it is common to...
View ArticleStratio Awarded Best Recruitment Team 2017 “PremiosIN”
It all started with a call from Adrián Arias, Enterprise Relationship Manager at LinkedIn: “Congratulations Stratio, you are one of our finalists to the “Premios IN”, nominated in the Best Recruitment...
View ArticleIntroduction to Deep Learning Part 2: Parameters and Configuration
One of the most fascinating ideas about Deep Learning is that each layer gets a data representation focused on the objective of the problem to be solved. So, the network as a whole generates an idea of...
View ArticleIntroduction to Deep Learning Part 3: Recurrent neural networks & LSTM
The human brain and our algorithms are hardly alike, as Neuroscience and Deep Learning are quite different disciplines, but some of the concepts still give support to some ideas. In this post, we will...
View ArticleOptimizing Spark Streaming applications reading data from Apache Kafka
Spark Streaming is one of the most widely used frameworks for real time processing in the world with Apache Flink, Apache Storm and Kafka Streams. However, when compared to the others, Spark Streaming...
View ArticleEvolutionary Feature Selection in Big datasets (Part 2)
This is the second chapter of a three-part series on Evolutionary Feature Selection with Big datasets. We will start where we left off, namely with a review of existing metaheuristics with special...
View ArticleBig Data Spain 2017
Big Data Spain is one of the three largest conferences of its kind in Europe. The conference focuses primarily on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Technologies and Digital Transformation....
View ArticleIntroducing Stratio’s new Agile Framework: Argos
Argos is new Stratio's framework. It is created to develop independent products which are integrated into a single final product. This unique framework also gives importance to dependencies and to...
View ArticleArgos Tour 2017
The Agile Team of Stratio went to different events where they showed and explained the Argos Framework to the Agile Community: AOS (Agile Open Space 2017), BBVAgile Conference and CAS (Conference Agile...
View ArticleData quality considerations in a data-centric platform
Data has become for many companies their most important asset. Ensuring quality of the information, as well as carrying out a proper management and governance of the data, is absolutely essential. The...
View ArticleDiscover the 3 most-read posts on our blog
We know that is hard to find time to read all of the blog posts, so here you have a recap of the 3 most-read posts published on our blog. The post Discover the 3 most-read posts on our blog appeared...
View ArticleNew Machine Learning Algorithm for Breast Cancer Detection
AI is very quickly expanding in the healthcare industry. Its primary role has been to automate processes to make it easier for employees to work on more complex people-related concerns. Yet as the...
View ArticleVyOS HA in AWS
Discover how to solve the recurrent problem of floating IPs when using highly-available virtual routers in AWS. This approach will show how the new master router can claim an EC2 Secondary private IP...
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