Originally published on the MemSQL Blog. We love fast databases. It makes the experience of interacting with your database that much more enjoyable.” — Tableau Today’s business decisions are about seconds, not minutes. To accommodate this trend, businesses have moved to evidence-backed decision making and widespread data access. Modern business…

Originally published on the MemSQL Blog. November is nearly upon us, with the spotlight on Election 2016. This election has been amplified by millions of digital touchpoints. In particular, Twitter has risen in popularity as a forum for voicing individual opinions as well as tracking statements directly from the candidates…

Originally published on the MemSQL Blog. Setting the Stage for Spark With Spark on track to replace MapReduce, enterprises are flocking to the open source framework in effort to take advantage of its superior distributed data processing power. IT leads that manage infrastructure and data pipelines of high-traffic websites are running Spark-in particular, Spark Streaming…

Originally published on the MemSQL Blog. At MemSQL engineering there are few things we love as much as building great products. One, however, is a good laugh. This past weekend a team from MemSQL set out to make our mothers proud at Cultivated Wit’s Comedy Hack Day, an event for…

To make Sublime Text available via the command line argument subl use: sudo ln -s “/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl” /usr/bin/subl Then to use your editor as the default for git commits and such, enter: git config — global core.editor “sub — wait”

What is a wireframe? — a visual guide that represents the skeletal framework of a website. Wireframes are created for the purpose of arranging elements to best accomplish a particular purpose. Capture ideas and sketch lo-fi interfaces. At this stage you are thinking about what features not whether or not…

What you’ll need: At the start: USB Keyboard Monitor Ethernet connection HDMI Cable or Video Composite Cable Always: Raspberry Pi Power Source 4GB SD Card GitHub Account Optional: A computer for SSH access, and formatting the SD card (OSX assumed for this tutorial) USB WiFi Dongle (or not if you…

This article expands on my previous topic Setting up a Raspberry Pi web server using Node & Express and it assumes that you have your Raspberry Pi set up in that fashion, or a fashion similar to it. (1) Arduino Uno Board (1) Raspberry Pi (Model B) (1) Red LED …

Because the formatting in Medium is so limiting, find the full version of these notes in this gist. This is also from 2013, so a lot of this isn’t relevant anymore, just want to have it in the medium account. 10 Sept 2013 The State of jQuery — Dave Methvin Bower and NPM dependency management out next month. Finding forced…