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Amazon re:MARS 2019 Day 1 (June 4, 2019)

Amazon re:MARS 2019 Aria Resort & Casino Day 1 (June 4, 2019) From the promotional materials: KEY1: Opening remarks & Innovation Spotlights (5:30pm – 6:30pm) Opening remarks by Dave Limp, SVP Amazon Devices and Services. Keynote to include innovation spotlights talks by (1) Marc Raibert, CEO, Boston Dynamics,

Implementing Databricks for Data Science and Engineering Teams: Part 1

A case study I wrote about a recent client project implementing Azure Databricks for data science and engineering teams was recently published (April 9, 2019). This write-up is the first of a two part series covering the first half of a client engagement with my team. (The original post can

Media Query Source: Part 17 - ITPro Today (US digital magazine); Are programming languages key to the evolution of machine learning?

* ITPro Today (US digital magazine) * Reaction to Facebook Chief AI Scientist * Python's popularity is relatively recent * "Best" programming languages often don't win My responses ended up being included in an article at ITPro Today (June 27, 2019). Extent of verbatim quote highlighted in orange,

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 15 - The Modern Software Factory Hub (CA Tech blog); Debunking the 5 biggest DevOps myths

* The Modern Software Factory Hub (CA Tech blog) * Debunking 3 myths of DevOps * DevOps means dev & operations not separate * Reasons to adopt DevOps not limited to cost My responses ended up being included in an article at "The Modern Software Factory Hub" by CA Technologies (October 23,

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

New Book Review: "Designing Event-Driven Systems"

New book review for Designing Event-Driven Systems: Concepts and Patterns for Streaming Services with Apache Kafka, by Ben Stopford, O'Reilly, 2018: Sam Newman, the author of "Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems" (see my review), mentions Steve Yegge's "Platform Rant" in the foreward

New Book Review: "Fast Data Architectures for Streaming Applications"

New book review for Fast Data Architectures for Streaming Applications: Getting Answers Now from Data Sets that Never End, by Dean Wampler PhD, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: A brief 40-page read that walks the reader through an introduction to the concepts of streaming, event logs and message queues,