Is there tax in the cloud?
Do you contract for IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS services like Amazon Web Services or SalesForce? Do you provide SaaS services like “cloud-based
Benchmarking the new AWS Postgres RDS instances
Postgres has finally come to RDS! Want to know how these instances stack up on a naive pgbench test? Below is a
Monitoring AWS VPC tunnels
While many Amazon Web Services resources with "state" have CloudWatch sensors available, AWS VPCs and tunnels unfortunately do not. If you're ever
Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The U.S. Code
Four years ago, Dan Katz and I began working on a project to measure the complexity of the law.
Plotting average read and write operation size by ASM disk for Oracle
Throughput, throughput, throughput - for many databases, this is the performance measure of importance. When you are working with
Plotting Oracle RMAN backup durations with R
How long does your Oracle RMAN backup take to complete? How does this vary over time? Are there patterns
Revisiting text processing with R and Python
Back in 2011, I covered the relative performance difference of the most popular libraries for text processing in R
Oracle ORION I/O benchmark results for AWS EC2 hi1.4xlarge instance type
In a typical Oracle database implementation, you'll want to baseline or benchmark your storage. The storage team will hand over, and you'll run a
Debugging parameter mismatch across RAC database instances with R, dba_hist, and gv$parameter
Did you find this post useful? Does your organization need Oracle services? We can help. Much of this morning went into investigating strange ADDM
Legal Informatics with AWS CloudSearch – Slides for tonight’s AWS Michigan meetup
Tonight, Eric and I will be presenting back-to-back talks at the AWS Michigan meetup (hosted by the Tech Brewery this time). Eric will be
Wordcloud of the Healthcare/ACA (NFIB v. Sebelius) Opinion
Here's a wordcloud of the NFIB et al. v. Sebelius et al. opinion. Very interesting coalitions formation. Healthcare/ACA wordcloud If you're interested
Wordcloud of the Arizona et al. v. United States opinion
Here's one purely for fun - a wordcloud built from the Supreme Court's opinion on Arizona et al. v United States. Word clouds, though certainly
Summary of community detection algorithms in igraph 0.6
Based on Launchpad traffic and mailing list responses, Gabor and Tamas will soon be releasing igraph 0.6. In celebration, I’ll be publishing a number