Tag: Data and analytics
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Data Mining and Predictive Analytics: Things we should care about
Posted on December 28, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Vikash Kumar from custom application development company Tatvasoft published this post about predicitive analytics. Data and tons of data are found at the core of any organization's success or failure. Businesses are going with all guns to create a better position in the marketplace by understanding their customer base, making constant improvements in their operations, outperforming their competitors and what not!
Tags data-and-analytics miscellaneous leadership-and-career
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Simple Kafka producer in Kotlin, tutorial
Posted on December 26, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The first in series of tutorials by Alexis Seigneurin focused on Kafka. Author focuses on producing, consuming and processing messages or events.
Tags backend-development software-engineering data-and-analytics devops-and-ci-cd
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Understanding the potential of Artificial Intelligence
Posted on December 21, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
An interesting interview with Daniel Hulme, CEO of the AI solutions startup Satalia, offers other chief executives a primer on the technology that will shape the future of work and business. Published on strategy-business.com by Euan Cameron and Deborah Unger.
Tags data-and-analytics cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous ai-and-machine-learning
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Predictive Analytics: the future of digital marketing
Posted on December 9, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
An older blog post by Deepak Kanakaraju on hot topic of predictive analytics. As technology impacts every aspect of our lives, it is also creating an impact in predicting the future, with reasonable accuracy.
Tags data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning security-and-privacy
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Create your first AWS Lambda using Rust
Posted on December 6, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Blog post by Konstantin Kostov about how he created serverless function in Rust programming language and deployed it to AWS. It was an example AWS Lambda function tasked with checking if a provided serial number is correct and that it is unique (not already part of an existing dataset).
Tags software-engineering architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics
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Combining Amazon Aurora, Lambda, and SQS to go beyond the native capabilities of MySQL
Posted on November 26, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
David Yahalom posted on redgate Hub about innovative combination of Amazon Aurora, serverless Lambda and Simple Que Service to strecth MySQL beyond native capabilities.
Tags backend-development architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd miscellaneous data-and-analytics
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10 MySQL database tuning tips for peak workloads
Posted on November 17, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Folks from MariaDB wrote this article in which they collated 10 MySQL tuning tips for peak workloads. As we head into the holiday season and the start of a new year, now is a great time to ensure your database is ready for whatever comes its way.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics software-engineering
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Parsing logs 230x faster with Rust
Posted on November 10, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Andre Arko blog post about dealing with logs for very busy web application behind RubyGems.org. A single day of request logs was usually around 500 gigabytes on disk. They tried few hosted logging products, but at their volume they can typically only offer a retention measured in hours. The only thing they could think of to do with the full log firehose was to run it through gzip -9 and then drop it in AWS S3.
Tags backend-development software-engineering architecture-and-apis data-and-analytics
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Create an Alexa skill with serverless and a conversation
Posted on November 1, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article by Niklas Heidloff and Mark Sturdevant from IBM on hot Alexa skills topic. In it you will find how to create an Alexa skill with serverless and a conversation. Apart from Alexa you will also use Watson to discuss the weather, build a conversation, or choose one from a library. Watson is a question-answering computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language, developed in IBM's DeepQA project.
Tags frontend-and-mobile architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure ai-and-machine-learning miscellaneous data-and-analytics
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JVM Profiler: open source tool for tracing distributed JVM applications at scale
Posted on October 14, 2018, Level advanced Resource Length long
Bo Yang, Nan Zhu, Felix Cheung, Xu Ning from Uber Engineering team published blog post about JVM Profiles. Data is at the heart of strategic decision-making process at Uber. Right sizing the resources allocated to Spark applications and optimizing the operational efficiency of Uber data infrastructure requires fine-grained insights about these systems, namely their resource usage patterns.
Tags software-engineering backend-development architecture-and-apis miscellaneous devops-and-ci-cd data-and-analytics
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Deep Learning with Python for beginners
Posted on October 5, 2018, Level intermediate Resource Length short
An article by Shailna Patidar in which she takes a look at Deep Learning with Python for beginners and explore the definition of Deep Learning as well as its main characteristics. Moreover, this article will go through Artificial Neural Networks and Deep Neural Networks, along with Deep Learning applications.
Tags backend-development ai-and-machine-learning software-engineering data-and-analytics
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Encrypting vs. signing with OpenPGP. What's the difference?
Posted on October 2, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Brad Wyro thoughts on encryption versus signing with OpenPGP. OpenPGP is the most widely used email encryption standard. PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy. In the article author helps to answer following question: how can you ensure confidential data transmitted via email is kept private?
Tags security-and-privacy business-and-emerging-tech data-and-analytics