Month: July 2011

Link Collection- July 17, 2011

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  • Preview of Storm: The Hadoop of Realtime Processing – BackType Technology

    Curious to see what happens with Storm, post-Twitter acquisition of BackType

    “There are three broad use cases for Storm:

    1. Stream processing: This is the traditional realtime processing use case: process messages and update a variety of databases.

    2. Continuous computation: Storm can be used to do a continuous computation and stream out the results as they’re computed. For example, we used Storm the other day to compute trending users on Twitter off of the Twitter firehose. Every second, Storm streams out the 50 users with the most retweets in the last few minutes with perfect accuracy. We stream this information directly into a webpage which visualizes and animates the trending users in realtime.

    3. Distributed RPC: Distributed RPC is perhaps the most unexpected and most compelling use case for Storm. There are a lot of queries that are both hard to precompute and too intense to compute on the fly on a single machine.”

    tags: storm backtype oss real-time

  • The challenges of streaming real-time data – O’Reilly Radar

    “You would be shocked at the ratio of engineers who can’t build event-driven, asynchronous data processing applications, to those who can, yet this is a big part of this space.”

    “…Jud Valeski: “Big data” as we talk about it today has been slayed by lots of cool abstractions (e.g. Hadoop) that fit nicely into the way we think about the stack we all know and love. “Big streams,” on the other hand, challenge the parallelization primitives folks have been solving for “big data.” There’s very little overlap, unfortunately. So, on the software solution side, better and more widely used frameworks are needed…”

    tags: real-time streaming event-driven

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Ten Topics a Venture Capitalist Cares About

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According to Guy Kawasaki The ten topics that a venture capitalist cares about are:1. Problem
2. Your solution
3. Business model
4. Underlying magic/technology
5. Marketing and sales
6. Competition
7. Team
8. Projections and milestones
9. Status and timeline
10. Summary and call to action

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Ten Topics a Venture Capitalist Cares About

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According to Guy Kawasaki The ten topics that a venture capitalist cares about are:1. Problem2. Your solution3. Business model4. Underlying magic/technology5. Marketing and sales6. Competition7. Team8. Projections and milestones9. Status and…

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A week in Tweets: 03-09 July 2011

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Almost catching up, for once – not quite a full week late. Here it is anyway: another week’s collection of Tweets and links, shuffled into the respective categories (or not, as the case may be). And, of course, the necessary ‘Read more…’ link:

Enterprise-architecture, business strategy and all manner of other business-big-picture themes:

florian__: Bottomline is, diagrams […]

Using Business Model Canvas for non-profits

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How do we use Alex Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas for the business of a not-for-profit organisation? Or, for that matter, the non-monetary aspects of a commercial organisation?
Over the past while have been asked by quite a few folks – Shawn Callahan, Alan Rodriguez, Robert Phipps and others – about how to use the Business Model Canvas in […]

What’s my own business-model?

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How do I make money, in my business? What’s my own business-model?
That was part of a follow-on to my previous post on ‘What do we mean by ‘business-architecture’?‘, in a great phone-conversation with a colleague last night, who challenged me to describe my own business-model and business-architecture.
To him, he said, a business-model is a kind of […]

Reinvent Your Training Methods

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I was recently at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (where PwC is a Patron) for their summer briefings.  Andy McAfee, is one of the regular guests and told some stories contrasting the degree of difficulty in finding the information we want in our own organizations with that of searching the public internet – night and day for most. The contrast reminded me of a discussion I had with an insurance CIO about the […]

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TOGAF Certification

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What do we mean by ‘business-architecture’?

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One of the keys to breaking free from IT-centric ‘enterprise’-architecture lies in reclaiming the meaning of the term ‘business-architecture’.
In TOGAF and other ‘classic’ enterprise-architecture, everything revolves around IT: the IT is deemed to be the sole centre of meaning within the enterprise. Hence ‘business’-architecture is defined as a subset of ‘enterprise’-architecture, which itself is defined […]