Amazon Redshift now supports modifying cluster accessibility and specifying sort order for NULL values

We are pleased to announce two new features for Amazon Redshift, making it easier for you to control access to your clusters and expanding query capabilities. Ability to modify cluster accessibility setting. You can now modify your Amazon Redshift cluster at any time, to be accessible from the public Internet or from only within your Read more about Amazon Redshift now supports modifying cluster accessibility and specifying sort order for NULL values[…]

How To Deploy a Clojure Web Application on Ubuntu 14.04

Introduction There continues to be an uptick in interest around functional programming and, more specifically, programming for the web in Clojure. Many tutorials on how to build basic applications often overlook deployment details. This article will show you how to deploy a Clojure web application to a Ubuntu 14.04 Droplet. Specifically, we will create a Read more about How To Deploy a Clojure Web Application on Ubuntu 14.04[…]

Apache Spark 1.5.2 and new versions of Ganglia monitoring, Presto, Zeppelin, and Oozie now available in Amazon EMR

You can now deploy new applications on your Amazon EMR cluster. Amazon EMR release 4.2.0 now offers Ganglia 3.6, an upgraded version of Apache Spark (1.5.2), and upgraded sandbox releases of Apache Oozie (4.2.0), Presto (0.125), and Apache Zeppelin (0.5.5). Ganglia provides resource utilization monitoring for Hadoop and Spark. Oozie 4.2.0 includes several new features, Read more about Apache Spark 1.5.2 and new versions of Ganglia monitoring, Presto, Zeppelin, and Oozie now available in Amazon EMR[…]