Node.js

I have to admit, when I first heard about Reactive, Rx, Linq, etc I was reluctant to learn it. All kinds of materials were mostly theoretical and I failed to get a grasp of the whole thing. Well I still am, I still can’t explain what a monad is. That said, this blog post is all about practicality of a pragmatist. PRISM is not more than just a product, building it have brought more opportunities. One of it dictates the necessity to do multiple external API requests in order to produce a response. This made me think, how can I make this concurrent if not parallel with a codebase that is relatively easy to understand for anyone interested in contributing? ...

During the last week, I’ve been following up work with a side project to do machine learning with Urbanesia’s comprehensive data. A lot of late night reading and fiddling with foreign codes were the highlights of my last week. Wanted to elaborate my implementations and how several kinds of technologies affect benchmarks particularly with classification performance. The repo for the codes is at Github here. During time span of the first batch of codes until now, I have made lots of changes to the codes and also the data store. I wasn’t sure at first, which database will bring the best performance. I’m testing on a fairly low spec hardware which is a Macbook Air Late 2011 with 4 GB DDR3, SSD and Intel Core i5 1.7GHz, this is nothing compared to a real server relatively. By the way, although relatively low spec, she’s got a name, it’s Claire. ...