Headcount: The Latest in Hirings, Firings And Retirings for November 2016
Keep an eye out for next month's executive moves and changes.
Keep an eye out for next month's executive moves and changes.
4.Tuples
A tuple is similar to a list. The difference between the two is that we cannot change the elements of a tuple once it is assigned whereas in a list, elements can be changed. A tuple is created by placing all the items (elements) inside a parentheses ()
Empty tuples are constructed by an empty pair of parentheses; a tuple with one item is constructed by following a value with a comma (it is not sufficient to enclose a single value in parentheses)
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5 .Dictionary
Python dictionary is an unordered set of key:value pairs , with the requirement that the keys are unique (within one dictionary). A pair of braces creates an empty dictionary: {}.Dictionary have no concept of order among elements.
Keys are unique within a dictionary while values may not be.The values Continue reading
While we all spend a lot of time talking about the massive supercomputers that cultivate new architectures, and precisely for that reason, it is the more modest cluster that makes use of these technologies many years hence that actually cultivates a healthy and vibrant HPC market.
Lenovo picked up a substantial HPC business when it acquired IBM’s System x server division two years ago and also licensed key software, such as the Platform Computing stack and the GPFS file system, to drive its own HPC agenda. The Sino-American system maker has been buoyed by higher volume manufacturing thanks to the …
Lenovo Drives HPC From The Middle Ground was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
This is a liveblog of the AWS re:Invent session titled “Introduction to Managed Database Services on AWS” (DAT307). The speakers for the session are Steve Hunt, Alan Murray, and Robin Spira, all of FanDuel; and Darin Briskman, from AWS Database Services.
Briskman kicks off the session with a quick review of AWS’ managed database offerings. These fall into four categories, which Briskman reviewed so quickly I couldn’t capture. I think they were SQL, NoSQL, data warehousing, and something else. Why use managed databases? Because this allows AWS to take over the responsibility for OS maintenance, DB maintenance, high availability, scalability, etc. All you have to worry about it is the application that runs on the database.
What are the managed relational database services that AWS offers?
Relational databases are really helpful in many cases, but sometimes NoSQL databases would be more helpful. AWS also offers DynamoDB, which is a managed NoSQL database service. DynamoDB is always clustered, and Continue reading
Tom Nolle's surveys point to three primary factors, and a possible solution.