Dan Milstein

These last few weeks, I've had the pleasant luck to be staying with a friend who used to work at O'Reilly, and thus, has a house littered with pretty ...

Just finished working my way through O'Reilly's new Hadoop offering, written by Cloudera's Tom White. Overall, I recommend it very, very highly. He ...

E.M. Forster, in his essay Aspects of the Novel, draws a distinction between "flat" and "round" characters in literature (two types that I suspect ...

Okay, so you know how they teach you, in Computer Science school, that lovely quote: "premature optimization is the root of all evil"? (variously ...

So, here at HubSpot, and at my previous gig at Lookery, I've been writing a pile of Hadoop code to take log files, pull out key info, sum it up in ...

Early in my coding career, I did a lot of work in Java, but for the last few years, I've mostly worked in Python. Since joining HubSpot a few months ...