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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: Copy provided by O'Reilly. This freely available book from O'Reilly is only the third available on the topic of data lakes,

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: Copy provided by O'Reilly. Probably the most practical text on how to succeed as a data science professional. While I have personally

New Book Review: "The JHipster Mini-Book"

New book review for The JHipster Mini-Book, by Matt Raible, C4Media (Publisher of InfoQ.com), 2015: Copy provided by C4Media (Publisher of InfoQ.com). According to the author, the purpose of this book is to further the knowledge of JHipster, as well as to show Java developers that they can

Past Book Review (July 6, 2007): "Balancing Agility and Discipline"

Past book review (i.e. posted prior to starting this blog) for Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Barry Boehm and Richard Turner, Addison-Wesley / Pearson Education, 2003: Great text. I really enjoyed reading this book by Boehm and Turner. Especially enjoyable was reading Grady Booch'

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: Copy provided by O'Reilly. This book specifically centers around time series databases (TSDB). Although collecting and analyzing time series data is not new, as

New Book Review: "The Human Side of Postmortems"

New book review for The Human Side of Postmortems: Managing Stress and Cognitive Biases, by Dave Zwieback, O'Reilly, 2013: Copy provided by O'Reilly. The subject of postmortems should definitely get more attention in the workplace, although properly conducted agile retrospectives are more in vogue these days

New Book Review: "JS.Next: A Manager's Guide (Second Edition)"

New book review for JS.Next: A Manager's Guide (Second Edition), by Aaron Frost, O'Reilly, 2015: Copy provided by O'Reilly. Great report on JS.Next in a small, 34-page package provided free by O'Reilly. The author, a Google Developer Expert nominated by

New Book Review: "Java: The Legend"

New book review for Java: The Legend - Past, Present, and Future, by Ben Evans, O'Reilly, 2015: Copy provided by O'Reilly. As the publicity material for this short, 50-page programming report points out, the road from Java's first public 1.0 alpha back in

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: 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 exposure to

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