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Confession: I am not an abstract thinker. In order to learn something new, I have to have it in my hands. So when I was asked to evaluate and understand the FHIR standard, my first course of action was to lift the hood on one of the more mature reference...

Just over 10 years, and  it has finally happened.
Hitachi Data Systems intends to acquire our baby, Pentaho.
I couldn't be more excited.  Pentaho is the fast, maneuverable Destroyer coming alongside the Hitachi Battleship, eagerly pursuing dominance of the IoT and Big Data space.  I can't think of a better fit for us as a company ready to do big things in a...

Had a bit of fun with Pentaho Analyzer recently. In the release of Pentaho 5.2, we have introduced the ability to define filters across a range of time, which is really handy when your dataset is millions of records per second.
My use case included keying our time dimension on seconds per day, which results in 86,400 (60 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours) unique records; one to represent each unique second in a day. While this is great for simplifying query predicates, it does...

Docker. Hmmmm. I really want to love it. Everybody else loves it, so I should right? I think maybe some of the "shiny" isn't so bright using DOCKER ON MY MAC.  Although, Chris J. over at Viget wrote this blogpost that singularly walked me through each...