Climate Science & Engineering

[...] At The Climate Corporation, we have “sprintbaticals”, two-week projects where we can work on something a bit different. [...]

[...] At The Climate Corporation, we have “sprintbaticals”, two-week projects where we can work on something a bit different. [...]

[...] Lucene, including some brand new features to improve accuracy of spatial queries that The Climate Corporation helped get into the latest version. Apache Lucene is a Java toolkit that provides a rich [...]

[...] shop Prismatic, and Emil Flakk. This post is cross-posted to Prismatic’s blog. The Climate Corporation and Prismatic share the unique challenge of developing new algorithms and making them work [...]

[...] of our rules and provides a nice, CanCan-like interface to perform authorization in the application code. I address the scalability issue more closely. I show how we can specify multiple, swappable [...]

[...] grows and so does our Ability class. Breaking encapsulation Abilities are defined in the application code. This allows us to be lazy or sloppy and allow the encapsulation of the rules to leak [...]

[...] already been done pretty well. Here, I talk about the challenges of scaling an authorization framework, the problems we run into, and finally a solution we can adopt. Can you CanCan? [...]

[...] this code. Let’s step back for a moment, though… Goals If I were to design the authorization framework for my application today, I would have two goals in mind: flexibility and scalability. [...]

[...] libraries in the Ruby ecosystem rely on coupling the application code to the authorization rules. Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler. – Albert Einstein Applications [...]

[...] let’s pretend we’ve chosen a good design for it. CanCan allows us to define our authorization rules or abilities in theAbility class. Here is what a few lines from my Ability class [...]

[...] generated the static files we need for our gem server. Using S3 We use S3 for plenty of things here at Climate. We’d rather not have another server [...]

[...] This post and work on HipHip are done in part by Leon Barrett, who spent a ‘sprintbatical’ visiting fellow Clojure shop Prismatic, and Emil [...]

[...] projects where we can work on something a bit different. This post is about work done by Leon Barrett during his recent sprintbatical. At the Climate Corporation, we do a lot of resource- [...]

[...] (Buro) Mookerji, who reviewed my code and gave great feedback. Big thanks also to Buro, Leon Barrett, and Steve Kim for reviewing this post. On deck This library could use a refactor for more [...]

[...] . But there is an expression that goes, “the truth is in the data.” Could analysis of PITCHf/x data shed light on the quality of umpires’ calls? I set out to answer the question. The [...]

[...] indexing addition isn’t yet hooked into those search servers yet, as of this writing. Grid indexing with PrefixTrees From Lucene 4 through 4.6, the only way to index polygons is to use [...]