Practice Report: A webapp with Polymer.js

Part two of a series of our journey building juptr.io:
Our experiences building a front end with google's Polymer.js

Why Polymer ?

There are numerous alternatives when choosing a framework to build web front ends some of most popular probably being ... [this blog has moved, continue reading here]

Make distributed programming great again: Microservices with Distributed Actor Systems

Part one of a series of our journey building juptr.io: 

How a fundamental abstraction streamlines, simplifies and speeds up developing a web scale system

goes higher, faster and avoids dirty feet :)

Juptr.io is a content personalization, sharing and authoring platform. We crawl 10'th of thousands of blogs and media sites (german + english), then classify the documents to enable personalized content curation, consumption & discussion.

This requires

• to crawl, store, query, analyze and classify millions of documents
• horizontal scalability
• a failure resistant distributed (micro)services architecture
• java, javascript interoperability

Compared to ordinary enterprise-level projects, a startup has much tighter time and budget constraints (aka startup in europe), so reduction of development effort was a major priority.
We decided to use the following foundation stack .. [this blog has moved, continue reading here]

Word disambiguation combining LDA and word embeddings

Topical search tries to take into account the occurence of search-term-related words to avoid matching irrelevant documents. This post lines out how LDA can be used to disambiguate a word-set obtained using word embeddings.  

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Texting Bots: The command line interface rebranded ?

Texting Bots and Chat Bots are all the hype, but is typing to a mostly dumb AI the way users want to interact with software ? Maybe other aspects besides AI and texting are the real killer feature of chat bots.

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