The mobile gaming market in North America continues to grow. As of Q3 2014, there are 141.9MM NA mobile gamers, up from 111.3MM NA mobile gamersin 2013. These mobile gamers spent an average of $32.65 in the last year,generating $4.63B in NA mobile gaming revenue. The graph below provides a view of how gamers discover games […]
A nice blog post from Asana on How to Start Small and Scale Over Time: Recently, we’ve made a series of changes to our data infrastructure that have all proven extremely valuable: Investing in monitoring, testing, and automation to reduce fire-fighting Moving from MySQL to Redshift for a scalable data warehouse Moving from local log […]
Watching programming language popularity is one of my hobbies. The TIOBE index Nov 2014, shows some interesting trends. Let us take a look. Click on these images to see a full page view. This para from the TIOBE is worth noting. Thanks to the big data hype, computational statistics is gaining attention […]
It is always nice to see when some one leaves a big pay check, a prestigious job with one of world’s biggest companies and ventures out into the unknown. It takes a lot of conviction, grit and perseverance to make it. Nest Co-Founder Matt Rogers explains why careers can be made on taking on the challenges […]
How much should you know about computing, if you are not a software developer? In his podcast titled To Code or Not to Code, Grady discusses how much a functioning member of society today should know about computing. A couple of my favorite snippets from the podcast: Knowledge and understanding have a funny way of […]