Posts Tagged ‘SaffronSierra’
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.
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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.
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 by Jim Fleming
Today Saffron announced our REST APIs for sense-making and decision support applications using SaffronMemoryBase (SMB). With these REST APIs, we’ve taken an otherwise difficult subject and made it easy. Similar to how REST has simplified SOA, Saffron’s REST APIs have simplified analytics. Notable features of our API are:
- Powerful, yet simple to use. For example, to ask what products are connected to the company saffron in the context of announcement, would be as easy as HTTP GET: http://hostname/ws/spaces/default/connections?q=saffron,announcement&c=product
- Includes both administration and application APIs.
- Includes both ingestion (write) and query (read) APIs.
- Queries cover everything from low-level (e.g. returning a sub-matrix of association counts) to high-level (e.g. returning rank-ordered list of association trends) operations.
- The API is not overwhelming. There are a small number of APIs that can be applied different ways to solve many problems.
- Dynamically combine associations together in various ways at query time. SMB’s virtual attribute system even allows the system to “see” multiple attributes as one, providing a way to fix-up data cleansing errors (e.g. Bill and William are really the same person).
- Standard JSON/XML input/output formats.
- SMB’s performance and REST API is ideally suited for today’s new class of analytical applications.
For more information about Saffron REST APIs please visit SaffronSierra, Saffron Technology or view today’s news announcement.
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