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Parallel Processing and FME: A Redesign for 2019

Mark Ireland
January 22, 2019 • 10 min

Parallel Processing can be a big deal in terms of performance. Modern computers have multiple cores and spreading processes over these cores makes the most of the available computi...

Feature Caching: A New Mode for FME Workspace Authoring

Mark Ireland
May 15, 2018 • 11 min

Squirrels often raid my bird feeders to collect food in the summer months and stash it away for quick access in the winter. I don't know if our developers were mimicking squirre...

Queues and Data Processing Jobs: FME Server and the Art of Queuing

Mark Ireland
April 5, 2018 • 9 min

Although waiting in queues is equally fair, the actions at the end of the queue might not be. That's why, for example, supermarkets have a special checkout for "ten items or fewer,...

Lightspeed Batch Processing: The Hidden Update in FME 2018

Mark Ireland
March 27, 2018 • 10 min

Batch processing is an important capability for a data translation and transformation tool like FME. So when we implement new functionality and somehow forget to give it much cover...

How to Join Data with FME and (Maybe) Land Your Dream Job!

Mark Ireland
January 30, 2018 • 9 min

When I was interviewed for a job at Safe Software, one question asked was "Do you know the difference between a left join and an inner join?" Because I've had access to FME, I'v...

FME 2017 Sneak Peek: Parameters, Parameters, Parameters…

Mark Ireland
January 18, 2017 • 6 min

We've made quite a few improvements in 2017 to make it easier to access, set, and use different FME parameters. And as much as I like surprising people with nice, shiny presents, i...

Improving FME Server Performance with NGINX

Claude Vessaz
December 13, 2016 • 3 min

All new FME Server 2017.0+ and 2016.1.3 instances are now running behind a NGINX reverse proxy in FME Cloud. As a developer on the FME Cloud team, this is something I have been hop...

FME Parallel Processing: Tips and tricks for generating groups

Mark Ireland
December 7, 2016 • 9 min

I recently taught the performance chapter of our FME Desktop advanced training course and got into a conversation with a student about creative ways to use parallel processing. Som...

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