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Personal Reading List: 1Q2019

My personal reading list for January, February, and March 2019. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) An Introduction to Machine Learning Interpretability, by Patrick Hall and Navdeep Gill, O'Reilly, 2018. Copy provided by Dataiku. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate All-in-One Exam

New Book Review: "High Performance Spark"

New book review for High Performance Spark: Best Practices for Scaling and Optimizing Apache Spark, by Holden Karau and Rachel Warren, O'Reilly, 2017, reposted here: The authors state in their preface that "this book is intended for those who have some working knowledge of Spark, and may

New Book Review: "Spark: The Definitive Guide"

New book review for Spark: The Definitive Guide, by Bill Chambers and Matel Zaharla, O'Reilly 2018, reposted here: Copy provided by O'Reilly. Over the past few months, I've had the chance to work through three related books in the following order: "Spark: The

New Book Review: "Practical Hive"

New book review for Practical Hive: A Guide to Hadoop's Data Warehouse System, by Scott Shaw, Andreas Francois Vermeulen, Ankur Gupta, and David Kjerrumgaard, Apress, 2016: Shaw comments about the moment he experienced when he first copied a file into HDFS and created a Hive table on top

Media Query Source: Part 16 InformationWeek (US digital magazine)Data silo consolidation challenges & risksTight coupling between apps & dataDiffering

My responses ended up being included in an article at InformationWeek (November 13, 2018). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Above image from cited publication. The responses I provided to a media outlet on October 31, 2018: Media: Why is it taking so long

Media Query Source: Part 15 The Modern S/W Factory Hub (CA Tech blog)Debunking 3 myths of DevOpsDevOps means dev & operations not separateReasons to a

My responses ended up being included in an article at "The Modern Software Factory Hub" by CA Technologies (October 23, 2018). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange, paraphrased quote highlighted in gray. Note that Broadcom completed the acquisition of CA Technologies about 3 weeks after this article

Personal Reading List: 4Q2018

My personal reading list for October, November, and December 2018. Color Key: Special Notes, Completed Reading. Updated throughout the Quarter. At Bat (Schnell) Common Errors in Statistics and How to Avoid Them (Fourth Edition), by Phillip I. Good and James W. Hardin, Wiley, 2012. Practical Hive: A Guide to Hadoop&

Lowe's Event Log Issues

Looks like the Lowe's event log is having some issues: I received a delivery notice an hour ago for a new range that was already delivered 6 months ago. At first I thought that perhaps this was an inadvertently sent duplicate event, but in checking my own log

Media Query Source: Part 14

The responses I provided to a media outlet on August 9, 2018: Media: Customer-centricity, customer journeys, data as an asset. In a lot of cases, it's just lip service. The real reason companies aren't keeping their promises traces back to the data they have and don&

New Book Review: "High Performance In-Memory Computing with Apache Ignite"

New book review for High Performance In-Memory Computing with Apache Ignite, by Shamim Bhuiyan, Michael Zheludkov, and Timur Isachenko, Lulu.com, 2017, reposted here: If you're looking for a book that covers Apache Ignite, as of mid-2018 this is still the only one. And while working through this