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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

New Book Review: "Going Pro in Data Science"

New book review for Going Pro in Data Science: What it Takes to Succeed as a Professional Data Scientist, by Jerry Overton, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: Probably the most practical text on how to succeed as a data science professional. While I have personally read dozens of blog

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"

Counterpoint: "20 Questions to Detect Fake Data Scientists"

Update: this counterpoint was revisited for Erik on Software anniversary post #500 (January 28, 2023). Just recently, links to an essay entitled "20 Questions to Detect Fake Data Scientists" was making the rounds in some of the forums that I frequent. And following up the 20 questions suggested

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: "Time Series Databases"

New book review for Time Series Databases: New Ways to Store and Access Data, by Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman, O'Reilly, 2015, reposted here: This book specifically centers around time series databases (TSDB). Although collecting and analyzing time series data is not new, as the authors explain, the

New Book Review: "PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook (Second Edition)"

New book review for PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook (Second Edition), by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli, and Hannu Krosing, Packt Publishing, 2015, reposted here: This book provides helpful material for those like myself who are relatively new to PostgreSQL, but not new to relational database products. While I had some earlier