Early adopters know they’re gambling.  The first versions of anything can prove to be an expensive science fair exhibit.  The Big Data hype cycle has the confounding addition of open source.  The parts are multiplying, overlapping and trumping each other.  Add the change vectors for cloud computing and analytics to get an architectural risk storm.

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Water, Water Everywhere

Recommender systems select products for customers based on past experience. Sometimes the product choices are called “items” or “content”, and other nouns are substituted for the customer. The most familiar case is that of…