The idea is to look at the shape of your data and use that to decide where you feel is the right threshold. One of the best ways to do that is to plot the quantiles.
Smart farming is a concept quickly catching on in the agricultural business. Offering high-precision crop control, useful data collection, and automated farming techniques, there are clearly many advantages a networked farm has to offer.
Here's a quick overview of building apps using microservices. Specifically, an exploration of service discovery, including why to use service discovery, client-side, and server-side info.
Spark has already over taken Hadoop (MapReduce) in general, because of benefits it provides in terms of faster execution in iterative processing algorithms.