How to SPEEDUP your Android Studio ?

Here are some quick trips that I have tried to speed up Android Studio on my Windows 8.1 Laptop. I hope you have a laptop with 4GB RAM because that is recommended.

1) Un-Comment  (if there are commented) or if they are missing then add these 2 lines to the project gradle.properties file (See image below)

org.gradle.parallel=trueorg.gradle.configureondemand=false 

2) Add these 2 line to the gradle properties file at the location - C:\Users\DataScience\.gradle where 'DataScience' is the user that I have logged in with to my Windows machine. If your Windows user is Jim then the path for you should be C:\Users\Jim\.gradle

3) In android studio, you can enable offline work to make android studio run faster. To enable offline in android studio, just follow following step.  In Android Studio, go to file >> setting and click Compiler from side menu and then type --offline in the command-line options box and hit OK button like this:

Tracking Game : Big Data & Logistics

How can Amazon, FedEx, Flipcart of the world leverage the huge amount of customer and logistics data to improve, optimize the process and increase profits. Do you remember the  IBM RFID TV commercial in which ' A call center attendant is sitting on the highway stops a trucker and tells him "The Boxes you are carrying have told me you are lost and you are on the wrong road". The driver replies "May be the boxes should drive the truck'. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAvQcYcvyaw ) The advertisement was about RFID technology and since newer technologies are being used in logistics world.

Today's logistics is all about
1) Visualizing, Monitoring & Optimizing Delivery Routes
2) Ensuring Timely & Accurate Delivery by real time intervention
3) Predicting Future Demand and Peak Load by analyzing data
4) Reducing Inventory and optimizing processes

Big Data can help in achieving all the above goals. Amazon uses Big Data to optimize the supply chain. By using predictive analysis based algorithm like 'Anticipatory Delivery', many time Amazon surprises us by delivering items in a very short time -  X number of popular products are prepacked and already delivered to warehouses in certain cities based on the recent trend. Bluedart uses GPS based technology chip called 'SenseAware' that provides complete detail of each shipment including parameters like temp and humidity. 

These systems are nothing but solutions based on combination of current technologies like GPS, Hadoop, Complex Event Processing, Sensor Technology, Predictive Analysis and Recommendation Engine etc. Gartners, IDB and Forresters have already projected integrated Hadoop-like-systems that will work like a framework. Multiple flavors of Hadoop are already offered by different vendors and the competition has just started. What is important is that Logistics landscape has changed and by applying technology it has become affordable to monitor, track, optimize, innovate and at the same time reduce the operating cost. Today Haddop is not an option but a integral technology for the new generation Logistics Systems.