Posts by dpadamsoz

Off topic: Those aren't wasp nests

Loved the story and the illustrations, thanks and well done.

The nests in your third picture belong to Fairy Martins, a kind of swallow. They don't need to be cleared out!

Splunk

I've been working on a project that generates enormous volumes of log data for the past couple of years and faced the task of consolidating data from hundreds of Apache logs. Gulp. Fast-forward: Splunk! For those of us without all of the right skills or time to roll everything from scratch, Splunk makes it supernaturally easy to extract information from data, complete with meaningful visualizations.

Sadly, I've had very little luck evangelizing for this sort of analysis amongst programmers I know.

I hope that your course work includes Splunk (and tools like it - whatever they might be) that show what "Big Data" analytics can look like in the real world.

P.S. A neighbor's son is looking to do a semester abroad in Spanish at your uni next term. Aussies can be shocking at geography ;-)