Tag: Data and analytics
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Apache Cassandra: An essentials guide
Posted on August 25, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Need to get up to speed on Cassandra and learn how it can benefit your software development practices? These are the essentials that cover the basics. By Rebecca Mills, Developer Relations @ DataStax.
Tags data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure
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How to create a custom Alexa skill using AWS Lambda and Serverless framework
Posted on August 22, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
The world of artificial intelligence assistants is growing with such velocity that it doesn't surprise us anymore and it's about to be ubiquitous. Written by Maria Meheden.
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis software-engineering leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure
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Handling slow queries in MongoDB: Investigation
Posted on August 17, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Article by Justin Liu about one of the most essential factors of performance in any application -- latency. Faster application response times have been proven to increase user interaction and engagement as systems appear more natural and fluid with lower latencies.
Tags data-and-analytics miscellaneous software-engineering devops-and-ci-cd architecture-and-apis
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Symfony messenger with SQS and SNS aws-services
Posted on August 13, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Let' checkout how to connect Symfony with Amazon SQS and SNS Services by using a Symfony component. By Stefan Pöltl.
Tags data-and-analytics backend-development architecture-and-apis miscellaneous software-engineering
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Build a GraphQL powered API with Laravel
Posted on August 8, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Often referred to as a platform or programming language agnostic query language, GraphQL is a comprehensive approach to guide software engineers in building data-driven applications. In this tutorial, you will learn some of the fundamental concepts required to build a Laravel API powered by GraphQL. BY Oluyemi Olususi.
Tags backend-development frontend-and-mobile software-engineering architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics
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Centralize your automation logs with Ansible Tower and Splunk Enterprise
Posted on July 15, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
For many IT teams, automation is a core component these days. But automation is not something on it's own - it is a part of a puzzle and needs to interact with the surrounding IT. By Leonardo Araujo.
Tags backend-development devops-and-ci-cd data-and-analytics
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Mastering AWS Kinesis data streams
Posted on July 14, 2020, Level advanced Resource Length long
An article by Anahit Pogosova in which she describes how she has been working with AWS Kinesis Data Streams for several years, dealing with over 0.5TB of streaming data per day. Rather than telling you about all the reasons why you should use Kinesis Data Streams (plenty is written on that subject), she will talk about the things you should know when working with the service.
Tags architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics leadership-and-career software-engineering
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Introduction to Machine Learning K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) algorithm in Python
Posted on July 13, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
Machine Learning is one of the most popular approaches in Artificial Intelligence. Over the past decade, Machine Learning has become one of the integral parts of our life. It is implemented in a task as simple as recognizing human handwriting or as complex as self-driving cars. By Vibhu Singh.
Tags ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics business-and-emerging-tech backend-development
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Five things to do when you've got too much on your plate
Posted on June 21, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
I guess we've all been there sometimes – waking up in the morning, tired of the very thought of the day ahead of us, still exhausted from yesterdays' chores. Our already low levels of energy pop like a balloon when we visualize our very first errand and a seemingly never ending list of tasks waiting to be finished. By Rebecca Brown.
Tags leadership-and-career data-and-analytics
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Training a deep CNN to learn about galaxies in 15 minutes
Posted on June 17, 2020, Level advanced Resource Length long
Let's train a deep neural network from scratch! In this post, I provide a demonstration of how to optimize a model in order to predict galaxy metallicities using images, and I discuss some tricks for speeding up training and obtaining better results. By John F Wu.
Tags data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning backend-development
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Introduction to Python SQL libraries
Posted on June 12, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
All software applications interact with data, most commonly through a database management system (DBMS). You will develop a straightforward application to interact with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases. By Usman Malik.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis
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How to perform K-means clustering with Python in Scikit?
Posted on June 7, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
While deep learning algorithms belong to today's fashionable class of machine learning algorithms, there exists more out there. Clustering is one type of machine learning where you do not feed the model a training set, but rather try to derive characteristics from the dataset at run-time in order to structure the dataset in a different way. It's part of the class of unsupervised machine learning algorithms. By Christian Versloot.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics