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Friday, April 30th, 2010 by Jared Peterson
I’ve recently added some sample code to our “examples” repository that demonstrates how to use SaffronMemoryBase running on SaffronSierra to do basic email classification. The example leverages the convenience of labels within Gmail to provide the “labels” for classifying future emails.
If you have a Gmail account (or a Google Apps account) then you already know that as emails come in you can associate them with labels. You might have labels such as “accounts”, “soccer”, “music”, “work”, etc… (those are some of mine anyway). As I started thinking about building an email classification example it occurred to me that the labels within Gmail would provide a nice, easy way of doing classification. By “labeling” emails in Gmail I’ve already made the statement, “This email is about work”, or “This email is about soccer”. Why not leverage that hard work?
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Tags: classifications, development, email, gmail, Java, SaffronSierra, smb
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Friday, April 16th, 2010 by Jared Peterson
We just pushed out a minor refresh to SaffronSierra. As a user you won’t notice much that’s different (hopefully). This refresh brings with it a couple of changes. One that users will see, and another they won’t. Let me talk about both briefly:
- Nightly Running Reminders – SaffronSierra is a pay-as-you-go service. You pay for every hour your service is running. SaffronSierra makes it really simple (you click a button) to start a SaffronMemoryBase system. It’s so simple in fact that it’s easy to start it and forget that it’s running. Now SaffronSierra will send email reminders every night to users who’s SaffronSierra service is running. If you actually want your service to be running 24/7 (which is totally fine by the way), and you don’t want to receive these reminders you can login and update your user profile.
- New Amazon AWS Java Libraries – SaffronSierra uses Amazon AWS as it’s backend infrastructure for running services. The java library we originally used to integrate with AWS has been deprecated. So, we ported SaffronSierra over to the new java library. This actually was a pretty painless process. There are some differences between the two libraries, but as I told someone recently “it’s different in the ways that it needs to be different.” Hopefully you won’t notice this change and things just keep humming along.
We’ll keep the updates coming, stay tuned.
Tags: amazon, development, ec2, Java, SaffronSierra
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Monday, April 12th, 2010 by Gayle Sheppard
We’re hearing it every day: Customers want better, more advanced analytic capabilities.
Customers are telling us they want to unify and apply advanced data analytics to disparate data sources –– semantic web, enterprise data, sensor data, structured and unstructured data, for example –– to improve business decisions and results.
It’s music to our ears because that’s what our associative memory technology does: We provide “beyond BI” capabilities, in a single tool, for sense-making and decision support. We can help our customers make better sense of things and make better decisions because we expose all the relevant experiences –– connections, similarities, prior outcomes for example –– across all the data in real time.
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Tags: applications, development, Partners
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 by Jared Peterson
Starting today we’ve changed the way pricing works for SaffronSierra. Hopefully you will find our new approach much simpler. What is our new approach? Some would call it “pay-as-you-go”. Quite simply there is a per-hour rate based on what type of SaffronSierra cluster you’re running. The per-hour rate starts at $1.00 an hour and goes up from there. There is no commitment, we just bill you every month for the time you use. If you haven’t used your service then you won’t be billed. Pretty simple right?
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Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 by Jim Fleming
Better known as SaffronSierra. Today Saffron announced the availability of SaffronSierra, a cloud delivery of the SaffronMemoryBase platform. As you know, SaffronSierra allows developers a quick and easy way to provision an associative memory “data service” with a push of a button. How easy is that? SaffronSierra will soon become even easier with a “no commitment, charge by the hour” payment plan, as well as, the ability to scale your service up to handle very large data volumes. If you are curious about the associations you might find in your data, now is a good time to try SaffronSierra, you have nothing to lose.
Tags: SaffronSierra, smb
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 by David Young
Version 0.1 of CL-EC2 is now available for download, under an MIT-style license. The project is hosted at common-lisp.net, and may be found here. There are several mailing lists available, and contributors are welcome.
Tags: amazon, cloudwatch, Common Lisp, ec2, lisp
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010 by David Young
To complement our Common Lisp EC2 interface, I’ve written a similar package for Amazon’s CloudWatch, an “easy-to-use web service that provides comprehensive monitoring for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Elastic Load Balancing”. There are currently just two operations provided by CloudWatch: ListMetrics and GetMetricStatistics, both of which are supported by our new package.
The CloudWatch Lisp interface has some work remaining; mostly just parsing the responses from Amazon into more useful representations of the metrics (similar to the way we transform EC2 responses). Since GetMetricStatistics can return a lot of information, I’ll have to decide how best to represent this data in an easy-to-use, Lispy fashion. At present, the CloudWatch responses are filtered through the s-xml package and returned in a “parsed-xml” format.
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Tags: amazon, cloudwatch, lisp
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 by Jared Peterson
We’re going to be moving SaffronSierra over to a new look and feel over the next few days. We’ll start will the blog portion of the site and then we’ll move to the console. The two pieces of the site may be out of phase for a bit while we flip the switches.
Also, as part of this transition we’ll be moving SaffronSierra customers off of Amazon Payments and onto normal credit card billing. We’ll be contacting all of our customers individually about this transition.
We thank you ahead of time for your patience during this transition.
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