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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: 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 step-by-step through

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

New book review for RESTful Java Patterns and Best Practices, by Bhakti Mehta, Packet Publishing, 2014: 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 marketplace. While

New Book Review: "Building Microservices"

New book review for Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems, by Sam Newman, O'Reilly, 2015: As explained in the preface to this book, "microservices" are small, autonomous services that work together, each of which is focused on doing one thing well. While the topic of microservices is

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) Training

Notes taken for posterity during two days of Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) training recently provided by Juniper Hill Associates at The Ohio State University earlier this month. Much like my notes for Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) training 3 years ago which you can find here and here, these notes

Strange Loop 2014:Turning the Database Inside Out with Apache Samza

Peabody Opera House September 18, 2014: 2:00 PM – 2:40 PM From the promotional materials: Turning the Database Inside Out with Apache Samza Databases are global, shared, mutable state. That’s the way it has been since the 1960s, and no amount of NoSQL has changed that. However, most

Past Book Review (September 26, 2008): "DW2.0"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for DW2.0: The Architecture for the Next Generation of Data Warehousing (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems), by William H. Inmon, Derek Strauss, and Genia Neushloss, Morgan Kaufmann, 2008: Awareness of this book arose following my recent

Liquibase in the Enterprise: Part 6

The last post in my series on Liquibase, an open source database change management tool, mentioned that I had been contacted by a startup that was looking to potentially work on a commercial release. A couple months after meeting with the cofounder and CTO of the firm as part of