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New Book Review: "Picking a Python Version"

New book review for Picking a Python Version: A Manifesto, by David Mertz, O'Reilly, 2015, reposted here: As someone relatively new to Python, this book perfectly matched my need to understand the currently available 2.x and 3.x series of the programming language. However, Mertz also discusses

New Book Review: "In Search of Database Nirvana"

New book review for In Search of Database Nirvana: The Challenges of Delivering Hybrid Transaction/Analytical Processing, by Rohit Jain, O'Reilly, 2016, reposted here: Copy provided by O'Reilly. Many potential readers of this book will likely dismiss it as being too theoretical in nature to be

New Book Review: "The Last Mile of Analytics"

New book review for The Last Mile of Analytics: Making the Leap from Platforms to Tools, by Mike Barlow, O'Reilly, 2015, reposted here: Probably the best book I have read regarding the road ahead for the analytics space, despite its small size. In reference to the title, Barlow

Workshop Notes (August 27, 2016): End-to-End Streaming ML Recommendation Pipeline (Spark 2.0, Kafka, TensorFlow)

1871 August 27, 2016 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM From the promotional materials: END-TO-END STREAMING ML RECOMMENDATION PIPELINE WORKSHOP Learn to build an end-to-end, streaming recommendations pipeline using the latest streaming analytics tools inside a portable, take-home Docker Container in the cloud! DATE Saturday, August 27, 2016 TIME 9:

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"