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Lead developer position in Zend Framework

Inovia opened a new position in Paris and looks for new talents. During the recruitment phase, you’ll get to pass two job interviews: one by phone, the other one in our office. During the first interview on the phone, we’ll … Continue reading

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Search engine vs Database in BI part 2: structure is value

In the first part, we discussed the differences between structured and unstructured approaches. Now we will try to see how unstructured data tools can help us to structure data. Adding structure is adding value As we saw earlier, the more … Continue reading

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Auto partitioning in postgresql – Part 2

After having created the partitions, now we will create a maintenance function that will help us running queries on every partition.   We saw in the first part how to dynamically create the needed partitions. Just add this function in … Continue reading

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It is summer time !

Right now the weather in Paris is pretty hot. People tend to take large breaks to lunch. Our employees decided to turn this situation into a team building event. Every day, two different persons cook summer recipes for everyone. It … Continue reading

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Auto partitioning on Postgresql – Part 1

We will share a simple approach to migrate existing tables to partitioned versions of them with Postgresql. The partitions will be created on demand with just a few lines of codes. It is useful during off-line migration, and can be … Continue reading

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Search engine vs Database in BI part 1: data structure

BI apps face a real data deluge these days. The engineers need new approaches to deal with this. Is a search engine, well known for handling humongous data sets, adapted to a BI context ? Business intelligence is the science … Continue reading

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The importance of optimism in a project

Being optimistic is not the most apparent quality of a co worker: we culturally prefer realist people, people that can evaluate the half both half empty and half full. In France, we tend to be a bit too much pessimistic … Continue reading

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