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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: Confidently Automating Changes Across a Diverse Fleet
Netflix engineer Casey Bleifer shares how to achieve rapid, automated code changes across a massive, diverse software fleet. She discusses building an event-driven orchestration platform using composable, Lego-like steps, and explains how Netflix utilizes automated canary validation, compliance checks, and a custom "confidence metric" to eliminate the long tail of manual engineering migrations.
By Casey BleiferIBM Vault Enterprise 2.0 Brings Automated LDAP Secrets Management to Enterprise Identity Security
IBM and HashiCorp have announced new LDAP secrets management capabilities in IBM Vault Enterprise 2.0, introducing a redesigned architecture to manage LDAP credentials, support password rotation, and automate the identity lifecycle.
By Craig RisiMicrosoft Foundry Adds Runtime, Tooling, and Governance for Production Agents
Microsoft used their Build 2026 event to announce new functionality for Microsoft Foundry. Citing Foundry as "the place where AI agents move from experiments to production systems," in a blog post, Nick Brady writes that the release brings “runtime, tools, memory, grounding, models, observability, and governance” that developers need for production agents, rather than just new model endpoints.
By Matt SaundersAWS Releases Next Generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless
Amazon Web Services has recently announced the general availability of the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, with a redesigned architecture that enables 20 times faster resource provisioning than the previous serverless architecture, true scale-to-zero capability, and up to 60% lower cost than a provisioned cluster for peak loads.
By Gianmarco NalinPinterest Uses Content Fingerprints for URL Deduplication across Millions of Domains
Pinterest introduced MIQPS, a URL normalization system that identifies which query parameters affect page identity using rendered content fingerprints. It reduces duplicate processing across millions of domains by replacing rule-based approaches with offline analysis, anomaly detection, and runtime parameter maps, improving ingestion efficiency and scalability in large-scale content pipelines.
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