Data Science and Beyond
JULY 30, 2015
Over the past year, I’ve been using Parse‘s free backend-as-a-service and web hosting to serve BCRecommender (music recommendation service) and Price Dingo (now-closed shopping comparison engine). The main lesson: You get what you pay for. Despite some improvements, Parse remains very unreliable, and any time saved by using their APIs and SDKs tends to be offset by having to work around the restrictions of their sandboxed environment.
Jim Harris
JULY 29, 2015
Brevity, according to Shakespeare, is the soul of wit. When it comes to the language used to describe the current and future state of information technology (IT), brevity seems to be the soul of it as well. Consider, for example, how much of IT is encapsulated into a single word— Cloud. To cloud or not to cloud is no longer the question. The question is how to cloud, and its multiple choice answers are also single words: Public, Private, Hybrid.
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