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Blog changes coming up
In the coming days, this blog and my entire corner on the web at http://savas.me are going to change. After 8 years of faithful service, I am retiring “pblog“, the blogging engine I wrote back in 2003 and further evolved few years later. I have already transferred all the blog entries to WordPress and I…
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Come work for our team!!!
In my previous post I shared my excitement about my new role in Microsoft. I work together with some amazing people on hard problems, in a domain that really excites me: data, information, knowledge at scale. We now want to grow the team and so we want YOU! 🙂 We are looking for good Developers…
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My new challenge in Microsoft
Over the last three months I’ve been having an incredible time at work. I opted not to talk about it because I wanted to make sure that it sticks this time 🙂 Before my current role, I participated in great startup efforts within Microsoft, projects with great vision and immense possibilities. We’ve learnt a lot…
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Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in 2012
Happy New Year everyone! 2011 was a slow year for this blog. Early last year I joined Erik Meijers team in order to work on an incubation project that involved actors, distributed graph-based processing, a highly-scalable and reliable document store, and more. Given the non-public nature of the project, I couldn’t really talk about it.…
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A crazy Savas trip 🙂
When Lee Dirks asked me to represent the Microsoft Research Connections team at a Digital Public Library of America meeting at Harvard Law School in Boston, I immediately checked my calendar. The DPLA folks are starting a wonderful new journey of defining a platform for digital libraries so they needed input from industry Software Architects.…
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XLDB 2011 conference – Observations
Granted, Netflix had to build their own pipeline based on open source technologies. They used the right tool for the job. They used a NoSQL solution for reliably gathering/recording their data at scale. They used an RDBMS where it made sense. Netflix is a big company. They can build their own data processing infrastructure from…
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My gas consumption is definitely going down 🙂
I moved to the US in September of 2005. I set a goal for myself to stay organized with regards to my finances and collect as much data as possible for data analysis. Since then, every single entry in my credit card statements is explicitly reviewed and categorized. I used Microsoft Money and then Quicken…
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Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
To me Steve represents the perfect example of a visionary, a creator, leader, an artist, a world changer. In my eyes, the world is a better, more beautiful place, because of Steve. Source: apple.com, Oct 5, 2011 Steve Jobs
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Glastonbury 2011
Another year, another Glastonbury!!! And as always, it didn’t disappoint. This year it was a different experience for me but it was still a lot of fun! 🙂 It was the first Glastonbury since 2004 that I didn’t experience on my own. Mary was with me, which meant that camping with a small tent, no…
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Implementing an Actor in C# with Task Continuations
We are having fun at work with some investigation work in the NoSQL space. We’ve been playing with actors in our distributed system. There has been a lot of prior work in this space so we are not really doing anything new with actors but it’s still fun. Scala, F#, Erlang, and many others have…