Take a look at data virtualization. It's an alternative to data warehousing without the burden of making mutiple copies of the data; instead, it retrieves the information fron source systems in real time.
The "single view of customer" use case, which is the one you mention in your post, is one of the oldest that this technology aimed to solve and it does solve it very well.
Does this actually work though? For instance, we may have user data in an API that, thanks to arbitrary rate limits, isn't useful at all when querying in real time.
You mean not being able to access specific user data due to hitting the rate limits of the API? In that case, you can always cache the data (using the cache facilities of the data virtualization layer) and create a hybrid real time/cached workflow that pulls data in real time when possible and from cache for the APIs that have restrictions in place.
It fills my needs perfectly because I created it specifically for myself and I control it fully in all aspects.
It's been such a tremendous success for me and so fun to create that I am thinking about replacing other online services with custom-made versions, such as google calendar, google tasks, etc. Something to look forward to in 2016.
After the demise Google reader, pretty much everybody I know started building their very own RSS Reader. We also made one for the Relevant app. It's beautiful card called RSS Reader that you can add it from the library. Then just paste your rss urls in the back of the card and it works. (Currently iOS only). http://relevant.ai/
Thank you! Alas, I did not. I am fully behind the open source/free software movement(s), but right now I am at a point in my life where I can't manage and support an open source project as my availability is super spotty. Also, you don't want to see the css... it makes gotos look good.
I'm not on that level but I put manual both measurements and endomondo readouts in a csv file, in my dropbox account. I update it daily with aggregates from the last day and seems to be working ok so far.
Ubuntu fonts are great, which Linux are you talking about and is this recent as in the last 5 years experience or is it qualified non-sense on your part?
>> Just look at Intellij IDEA in ubuntu for example.
I have, I'm not impressed overall though on Ubuntu the fonts are fine. I stick with Eclipse because SWT was and is a brilliant idea, the widgets don't just look native, they _are_ native.
That bears repeating, with SWT, the widgets don't just look native, they _ARE_ native.
Swing does its own font rendering, so the fonts look wrong[0] on every platform.
[0] Where "wrong" means "different from what is expected on the platform" – until we get higher-resolution screens font rendering is a compromise between sharpness and correctness-of-shape; different platforms make different choices; users adjust to the specific choices their platform has made. To observe this in the wild, read any discussion of Safari on Windows.
