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Occasionally we write some interesting things we were working on.

Text processing problems with non-English languages

Tena Belinić on 03 Apr 2018

In our previous article, we started the discussion about text mining and talked about the most powerful text mining techniques for natural language processing. Now the time has come to talk about problems and difficulties appearing with processing any language that isn’t English.

Back to school we GO

Jasna Benčić on 30 Mar 2018

Most recently Kraken’s CEO Marin Bek has started a little school of programming in GO language for his employees. Can your CEO program? Well, ours can and he’s willing to teach us the new stuff so we can all GO forward (pun intended) with the business and innovate stuff with new and exciting technology.

Transforming and sending Nginx log data to Elasticsearch using Filebeat and Logstash - Part 2

Daniel Romić on 23 Feb 2018

We continue log data transformation by focusing on Logstash configuration, potential basic obstacles, data enrichment and differentiating indexes

Transforming and sending Nginx log data to Elasticsearch using Filebeat and Logstash - Part 1

Daniel Romić on 29 Jan 2018

In this post we show how to transform your log files using Filebeat and Logstash and show a lifecycle of a log file in such ecosystem

KrakenSystems DevOps meetup on January 26th

Daniel Romić on 26 Jan 2018

KrakenSystems was invited to Zagreb DevOps meetup on January 26th organized by Infobip. Our CTO, Dejan Strbad prepared an interesting presentation and shared his in-field experience with Kubernetes, how and why other companies are using it, what Kubernetes brings to developers and system administrators as well as basic concepts behind it.

Mine your text and extract valuable data! Natural language processing tools

Tena Belinić on 15 Jan 2018

Recently word “mining” is heard in every corner. The reason is not only the bitcoin hype but also a wave of interest in machine learning tools and instruments to make customer behavior analysis. Text mining is one of such instruments. In the series of following articles, we will share with you the most powerful text mining techniques and identify some of the most used language processing tools. Also, we will clarify common issues with the text processing.

Behaviour tracking - a tool to better understand your customers. Real business examples.

Magdalena Duvnjak on 03 Jan 2018

Happy New Year from Kraken! We are back from holidays and ready to start this year with a new article! The online tracking of customers behaviour has always raised a lot of questions - What actual benefit does it bring? How to measure its effectiveness? Does it violate customers privacy and is it legal at all? In our article we provide answers to these questions as well as share real business examples from our practice.

Swagger integration with Django REST Framework

Matea Penezić on 05 Dec 2017

There are several possibilities for documenting API in Django REST framework. In this short tutorial you will learn how to include and set up Swagger UI with your Django projects.

Stashing and tracking logs - Introduction

Daniel Romić on 20 Nov 2017

In this post we cover the need for tracking and aggregating various software logs and several software solutions that are currently available for this constantly growing niche.

Personality profile of social media users - how to get maximum from it

Tena Belinić on 13 Nov 2017

Today people’s profiles in social media can give a lot of information about their personality, preferences, style of life, products they would buy or things they would like. If you know how analyse user profiles using data science you get a magic key to the real picture of your customers. Find out how someones’s writing style in social media is defined by gender, age and personality.