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Carol McDonald
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Carol McDonald's Groups
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Community Corral
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iPhone Development
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Database SIG
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JEE Town
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Spring Town
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Carol McDonald's Discussions
Some Java Concurrency Tips
Started Sep 18, 2009
Java Enterprise Tech Tips: Locking and Concurrency in Java Persistence 2.0
Started Sep 14, 2009
Comparing Tomcat and Glassfish
Started Mar 6, 2009
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- What are your main interests in software development?
- Java, Web, Ajax, Java EE, Spring, Seam, JPA, Web Services
- Do you have a website?
- http://weblogs.java.net/blog/caroljmcdonald/
- Anything else you'd like to add? Where do you live? (optional!)
- Je parle Francais. Ich kann Deutsch.
Carol McDonald's Blog
movie recommendations with Spark machine learning
Posted on August 4, 2015 at 11:15am 0 Comments 1 Like
Tutorial on Apache Spark, movie recommendations with machine learning
This post discusses building a recommendation model from movie ratings using an iterative algorithm and parallel processing with Apache Spark MLlib.
https://dzone.com/links/parallel-and-iterative-processing-for-machine-lear.html
An Inside Look at the Components of a Recommendation Engine
Posted on April 13, 2015 at 9:14am 1 Comment 0 Likes
Recommendation engines help narrow your choices to those that best meet your particular needs. In this post, we’re going to take a closer look at how all the different components of a recommendation engine work together. We’re going to use collaborative filtering on movie ratings data to recommend movies. The key components are a collaborative filtering algorithm in Apache Mahout to build and train a machine learning model,…
Continuescreencast about MySQL for Developers
Posted on March 30, 2009 at 10:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
If you are a developer using MySQL, you should learn enough to take advantage of its strengths, because having an understanding of the database can help you develop better-performing applications. This session will talk about MySQL database design and SQL tuning for developers. Some topics include:
* MySQL Storage Engine Architecture
* Schema, the basic foundation of performance
* Think about performance when… Continue
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Presentation: WASM in the Enterprise: Secure, Portable, and Ready for Business
Andrea Peruffo explains the power of server-side WebAssembly, especially on the JVM. Using Red Hat's Chicory runtime, he details how to achieve secure sandboxing, fault isolation, and cross-architecture portability without foreign function interfaces. Learn through case studies how WebAssembly solves real-world enterprise problems, including achieving 10x - 40x speedups with AOT compilation.
By Andrea PeruffoSystem Initiative Unveils Expansion with Real-Time Multi-Cloud Discovery and Automation
System Initiative recently announced a major set of new capabilities designed to give engineering organizations instant, real-time visibility and AI-driven control across any cloud platform or API.
By Craig RisiMemori Expands Into a Full-Scale Memory Layer for AI Agents Across SQL and MongoDB
Memori is an innovative, open-source memory system that empowers AI agents with structured, long-term memory using standard databases like SQL and MongoDB. It seamlessly integrates into existing frameworks, enabling efficient data extraction and retrieval without vendor lock-in. Ideal for developers, Memori's modular design ensures reliability and scalability for next-gen intelligent systems.
By Robert KrzaczyńskiHow Discord Scaled Its ML Platform from Single-GPU Workflows to a Shared Ray Cluster
Discord has detailed how it rebuilt its machine learning platform after hitting the limits of single-GPU training. The changes enabled daily retrains for large models and contributed to a 200% uplift in a key ads ranking metric.
By Matt FosterAzure API Management Premium v2 GA: Simplified Private Networking and VNet Injection
Microsoft has launched API Management Premium v2, redefining security and ease-of-use in cloud API gateways. This new architecture enhances private networking by eliminating management traffic from customer VNets. With features like Inbound Private Link, availability zone support, and custom CA certificates, users gain unmatched networking flexibility, resilience, and significant cost savings.
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