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Workshop Notes (August 27, 2016): End-to-End Streaming ML Recommendation Pipeline (Spark 2.0, Kafka, TensorFlow)

1871 August 27, 2016 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM From the promotional materials: END-TO-END STREAMING ML RECOMMENDATION PIPELINE WORKSHOP Learn to build an end-to-end, streaming recommendations pipeline using the latest streaming analytics tools inside a portable, take-home Docker Container in the cloud! DATE Saturday, August 27, 2016 TIME 9:

New Book Review: "Making Sense of Stream Processing"

New book review for Making Sense of Stream Processing: The Philosophy Behind Apache Kafka and Scalable Stream Data Platforms, by Martin Kleppmann, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: My first exposure to author Martin Kleppmann was at his Strange Loop 2014 talk in St Louis, Missouri entitled "Turning the

Chicago Area Hadoop User Group (CHUG):A Night of SQL on Hadoop (June 21, 2016)

HERE June 21, 2016 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM From the promotional materials: 'SQL on Hadoop' As more corporations are moving to mainstream their Hadoop clusters, there is an increased interest in providing Business Intelligence (BI) functionality. SQL on Hadoop is one of the top interests as

New Book Review: "Architecting Data Lakes"

New book review for Architecting Data Lakes: Data Management Architectures for Advanced Business Use Cases, by Alice LaPlante and Ben Sharma, O'Reilly, 2016, by Jonas Bonér, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: This freely available book from O'Reilly is only the third available on the topic

Liquibase in the Enterprise: Part 7

As discussed in part 5 of this series (and the part 6 follow-up), the co-founder and CTO of a start-up named Datical asked for my input back in 2012 during the market validation process of a new product called Datical DB. This past week, I was excited to hear that

New Book Review: "The Hadoop Performance Myth"

New book review for The Hadoop Performance Myth: Why Best Practices Lead to Underutilized Clusters, and Which New Tools Can Help, by Courtney Webster, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: Technologists have been complaining about Hadoop performance for years. This small, 15-page text explores the Hadoop performance "myth"

What is "Full-Stack"?

What is "full-stack" development? What does a "full-stack" developer do? Typically, developers who feel that they can effectively program across all layers of an application refer to themselves as "full-stack". While I've heard this explanation on numerous occasions, I'm reminded

New Book Review: "Building Real-Time Data Pipelines"

New book review for Building Real-Time Data Pipelines: Unifying Applications and Analytics with In-Memory Architectures, by Conor Doherty, Gary Orenstein, Steven Camina, and Kevin White, O'Reilly, 2015, reposted here: Most readers will already likely be aware of the benefits of soft real-time data, but the authors provide a

New Book Review: "Spring REST"

New book review for Spring REST, by Balaji Varanasi and Sudha Belida, Apress, 2015, reposted here: Phenomenally practical guide for designing and developing REST services using the Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Web MVC, and Spring Data. Unlike many technical books in the marketplace, this guide truly walks the reader

New Book Review: "RESTful Java Patterns and Best Practices"

New book review for RESTful Java Patterns and Best Practices, by Bhakti Mehta, Packt Publishing, 2014, reposted here: Concise 125-page, 6-chapter presentation on how to efficiently build scalable, reliable, and maintainable high performance REST services that is among the very few available newer texts on the subject in the 2015