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Words of Wisdom to the Graduating Engineers of 2013

17 May 2013 By WibiData Staff Comments.

Graduation time is upon us. That means thousands of excited engineering students will don colored gowns and caps, walk across football fields, receive their diplomas and saunter into the next stage of their lives as professional developers. While many are deciding between the open workspaces of startups and the chic offices of corporate headquarters, all new graduates should take pause to prepare themselves for the road ahead. After years of programming courses and math philosophy lectures, it’s time to enter the professional world of engineering where grades don’t exist, but expectations to perform do. The talented

A Wibi World

14 May 2013 By Whitney Wu Comments.

I’ve just concluded my first few weeks as a Wibi and it’s been a whirlwind of excitement, nerves and fun. The excitement of being in a new city, the nerves of working with such wicked smart individuals and the challenges and joy of entering the startup life. So far, WibiData is exactly what I was looking for in my next opportunity. Before joining WibiData, I had been struggling with what career I wanted to invest in, as I am still asking myself, “What do I want to be when I grow up?” What I

A Great Kiji Workshop, More to Come at CloudCon

10 May 2013 By WibiData Staff Comments.

Organizations across industries know that creating personalized applications at scale is a difficult task and recognize the importance of personalization in an increasingly competitive landscape. The ability to analyze a user’s entire history, synthesize insight from the user's current session and act on that information in real time requires massive engineering resources when starting from the ground up. Kiji is an open-source framework that makes real-time personalization easy by enabling developers and analysts to collect, analyze and use data in real time. A Kiji Workshop Last week, WibiData hosted a training workshop on Kiji, a

WibiData Hosts First Gradle Meetup

6 May 2013 By WibiData Staff Comments.

Building complex distributed systems is hard. In fact, it’s downright problematic. Developing software, managing dependencies for other projects, integrating tools and packaging are only a few of the tasks that need to be simultaneously executed in order to seamlessly run an always-on service. Tonight, WibiData will host the first monthly Gradle meetup at our offices, kicking off with a guest talk from our friends at Netflix. Netflix faced a dilemma when it was time to open source the cool projects

A New Face on the Field Team

3 May 2013 By Adam Kunicki Comments.

I've been at WibiData for a little over a week and already feel like part of the Wibi family. In fact, deciding to join the WibiData engineering team may be one of the smartest decisions I've ever made. But before I detail why this has been such a great career move, I'll explain how I ended up here. After graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Engineering with a BA in computer engineering, I started my career in the semiconductor manufacturing industry at Infineon Technologies in Richmond, VA. There, I wrote applications to gather manufacturing

The Road to WibiData

30 April 2013 By Don Brown Comments.

I am a native Texan which means, among other things, I am a die hard Dallas Cowboys fan - even this year. I currently reside in Atlanta but have lived all over the East Coast, including New York, Connecticut and Virginia. And like my billing address, the road to becoming a WibiData field engineer has been paved with many stops along the way. I got my first computer at age seven, the first generation IBM PCjr, and it's still sitting in my parent's basement to this day. My passion for the art of programming stems from developing

A Big Leap into Big Data

23 April 2013 By Amit Nithianandan Comments.

As I conclude my third week at Wibidata, I’m staring at the new hire disco ball and on how incredible my first weeks have been. I had the great pleasure (and luck) of participating in the annual team trip, which brought the Wibi team to San Diego to meet a team of US Navy SEALs and then to Disneyland in Los Angeles for a day of roller coasters, water rides and tons of fun. My foray into the world of Big Data started back in 2008 when I joined Zvents, an events discovery startup acquired by StubHub/eBay

WibiData Takes Over SoCal

22 April 2013 By WibiData Staff Comments.

Recently, WibiData ventured on its annual off-site excursion to explore some of our most cherished values: work-life balance and “teamness.” Rather than hit the ropes course for trust falls and name association games, the entire WibiData team took off in WibiStyle to sunny Southern California. We spent time with some Navy SEALs, dined against the beautiful LA skyline and topped it off with an excursion to Disneyland to embark on a photo scavenger hunt amongst the roller coasters. On day one, the WibiData team woke up bright and early to catch a flight to San Diego, California;

Building Big Data Applications with Kiji

17 April 2013 By WibiData Staff Comments.

We’ve entered a new era of information. Netflix gets it. LinkedIn sees potential. And Amazon has made an art of data mining. But how do individual developers and organizations utilize data to extract immediate, actionable insight? At WibiData, we are helping organizations build applications that take full advantage of the breadth and depth of data they capture by offering a one-day course in Redwood City. This workshop provides developers with the tool set they need to build Big Data Applications using the open source framework,

Timeshifting in HBase

9 April 2013 By WibiData Staff Comments.

Guest Post: Jeff Kolesky of Opower For our HBase table layout, we are following an entity-centric model, evangelized to us by our friends at WibiData. The idea is to put all of the data about a single entity into a single row in HBase. When you need to run a computation that involves that entity’s data, you have quick access to it by the row key, and all of the data is stored close together on disk. Additionally, against many suggestions from the HBase community, and general confusion about how timestamps work, we

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