Resque: The Responsible Job Scheduler Behind PromptCloud’s Stack
Resque is a lightweight, fast, and a very powerful message queuing system used to run Ruby jobs in the background, asynchronously. The background jobs could be of any Ruby class, which responds to perform method of Resque. In a high end tech stack specifically catering web scraping, Resque does a great job in scheduling the […]
Read MoreAutomate Research: Early Project Capture for Market Research Firms
Internet has become our one stop tool for everything from getting educated on a topic to staying updated to the latest news. For most people, it is rather an extension of their own minds where information available is infinite. The sophisticated data warehouse that it has become, internet can definitely serve as a great market […]
Read MoreThings to Keep in Mind while Identifying Sources for Data Crawling
Sources for Data Crawling, business is unfathomable without data. Any business needs processed and refined data in quick time to aid in their decision making and letting them be ahead of their rivals in their line of business. Interestingly, the sources from where a business may get the data or intelligence has now become a […]
Read MoreHow IOT can Boost Business Productivity
Each passing year is turning our world into a smarter and more connected place where every other thing communicates with one another. The Internet of Things is a technology with immense potential and it is expected to improve the efficiency and productivity of individuals as well as businesses. Part of it has to do with […]
Read MoreEmployee Spotlight: Rajesh
Exposing the wizards behind PromptCloud A great workforce is never complete without some diversity in the team. Rajesh Kumar, a Yahoo! alumnus, and programmer, makes Team PromptCloud rich with his profound knowledge of algorithms and coding skills. When he is not working on some super cool machine learning algorithm, he is an avid traveler and reader. […]
Read MoreWhat to expect from AI in the near Future – Jurgen Schmidhuber
Insights derived from big data is turning every company into consumer focussed, highly efficient and smarter entities. Everything looks good so far with the power of big data. Gathering and analysing data, understanding exactly what the customer wants and taking actions on it are some of the recent improvements that we owe to the technological […]
Read MoreChoosing a CRM for your Business
When it comes to managing customers, every business starts off with an excel, listing current customers along with their contact details. The next in row is tracking inbound queries that you receive from your landing pages or forms on your website. All of us have gone through this phase of adding monthly leads into excel […]
Read MoreHow Google Search Works- A Peek Inside The Web Crawling Giant
There are valid statistics which evince that, despite occupying the 65% market share in web searching ecosystem, Google crawler and indexes only the 16% of the entire world wide web. More specifically, every search query made on Google extracts 0.03% of the total information regarding that search query from the web. Admittedly, this information does […]
Read MoreTop Alternatives to Kimono Labs
Kimono Labs, a web scraping tool popular among the big data community, was shut down on February 29th, 2016. Users of this popular web scraping framework were left devastated and lost when the shutdown happened. Kimono Labs were being used by thousands of businesses to gather structured data from the web. Finding an alternative to […]
Read MoreHow you can gain Business Insights from Price Comparison sites
The other day, I was looking to get a new laptop. As is the case with an urban lifestyle, the first choice was to check online, rather than step outside and check out multiple shops. However, when going through the motions, I realized I made one small change to the way I shop online (as […]
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