Tag: Operations
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DURSLEy and CAPS
Monitoring and metrics! Theoretically any system that a human cares about could be monitored with these three patterns: I’m hardly the first to notice there’s overlap… here’s a good starting point to read from. I haven’t seen these compressed to a single metric set yet, probably from not looking hard enough.…
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Phases of Data Modeling
Say that you want to use some data to answer a question. You’ve got a firewall, it’s emitting logs, and you make a dashboard in your logging tool to show its status. Maybe even alert when something bad happens. You’ve worked with this firewall tech for a few years and…
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Tools and the Analyst
Let’s say I’m responsible for a complex system. I might have a lot of titles, but for a big part of my job I’m an analyst of that system. I need tools to help me see into it and change its behavior. As an analyst with a tool, I have…
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Dev and Test with Customer Data Samples
The short answer is don’t do it. Accepting customer data samples will only lead to sorrow. REDUCE THE DATA At first, you may look at a big data problem as a Volume or Velocity issue, but those are scaling issues that are easily dealt with later. Variety is the hardest…
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GDPR is great for Facebook and Google
GDPR is going to be great for Facebook and Google. “Over time, all data approaches deleted, or public.” — Norton’s Law. See Haunted By Data by Maciej Cegłowski and The State of Artificial Intelligence by Andrew Y Ng for more background and viewpoints. Picture two types of data store, public…
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Where’s the Product in AI?
AI & ML products are harder than they look AI tech is obviously overhyped, and conflating with ideas from science fiction and religion. I prefer using terms like Machine Intelligence and Cognitive Computing, just to avoid the noise. But if we strip away the most unrealistic stuff, there’s some interesting…
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Windex: Find Splunk apps that have index time operations
If a Splunk app has index-time operations, it has to be installed on the first heavy forwarder or indexer to perform those operations on the data that’s coming in. If it doesn’t have those operations, then it only needs to be installed on the search head to perform its search…

