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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 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

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,

New Book Review: "Gradle Essentials"

New book review for Gradle Essentials, by Kunal Dabir and Abhinandan, Packt Publishing, 2015, reposted here: The only relatively recently published (circa early-2018) text on mastering Gradle fundamentals. Although I have been a long-time Apache Maven user, I admittedly resisted a move to Gradle a few years ago when some

From the Trenches: Technology Radar Volume #17

Introduction The title of this post is influenced by a 2012 post of mine which went into detail discussing a suite of commercial products that I had used on a project at that time, with the tagline "from the trenches" to emphasize that my writing was from personal

Media Query Source: Part 11

The responses I provided to a media outlet on February 8, 2018: Media: Why are microservices becoming so popular with large brands like Netflix? Are they the future of app building? Are smaller companies seeing the same benefits? Do microservices bring the same benefits to small scale projects with small