Tag: Data and analytics
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MySQL vs. MariaDB: Reality check
Posted on January 4, 2018, Level beginner Resource Length long
Colin Charles published extensive comparison between MySQL vs. MariaDB (including Percona Server for MySQL). His goal was to evaluate, at a higher level, MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Server for MySQL side-by-side to better inform the decision making process. It is largely an unofficial response to published comments from the MariaDB Corporation.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics software-engineering
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Sherlock: Near real time search indexing for commerce site
Posted on December 30, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Prasanna Ranganathan from Flipkart published article about building a world-class e-commerce discovery experience through search. The dynamic nature of e-commerce poses unique challenges — stock units, availability, pricing, catalog data, etc. can all change at a very high rate and the system needs to keep up with the latest data lest the customer be disappointed.
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis
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A primer on deep learning
Posted on December 29, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Post written by Jeremy Fain -- the CEO and co-founder of Cognitiv, the first neural network technology. In it he addresses what deep learning, machine learning and artificial intelligence is.
Tags data-and-analytics
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Web scraping with Puppeteer and Chrome Headless
Posted on November 22, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length short
Emad Ehsan put together article about how to get started with Web Scraping in Chrome Headless. Chrome Headless is going to be industry leader in Automated Testing of web applications. Puppeteer is the official tool for Chrome Headless by Google Chrome team.
Tags frontend-and-mobile data-and-analytics ai-and-machine-learning
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MongoDB performance issues – fact or fiction
Posted on November 14, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Ken W. Alger blog post aiming at clearing up the conversations about MongoDB performance. Often information against MongoDB is based on outdated data and older versions of MongoDB.
Tags data-and-analytics
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MongoDB architecture explained
Posted on November 2, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Older post from The IBM BP Network about MongoDB. In the blog authors explored the fundamental concepts and assumptions that underlay the architecture of MongoDB.
Tags data-and-analytics software-engineering
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MySQL 8.0 performance and ReadWrite workloads scalability
Posted on October 30, 2017, Level advanced Resource Length long
Dimitri Kravtchuk (MySQL Performance Architect, Oracle) - published blog post on new MySQL 8.0 performance. He writes about how their Read-Only scalability was a big pain, as Read-Only (RO) workloads were often slower than Read-Write (sounds very odd: "add Writes to your Reads to go faster", but this was our reality ;-)) -- and things were largely improved since MySQL 5.7 where we broke 1M queries per second (QPS) barrier and reached 1.6M QPS for the first time. However, improving Writes or mixed Read+Writes (RW) workloads is a much more complex story.
Tags backend-development data-and-analytics software-engineering
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AI turns design sketches into source code
Posted on October 27, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Dimitar Mihov via [tnw](https://thenextweb.com) published article about Artificial Intelligence (AI) implemented and built by Airbnb that turns design sketches into product source code. The company is currently developing a new AI system that will empower its designers and product engineers to literally take ideas from the drawing board and turn them into actual products almost instantaneously.
Tags data-and-analytics software-engineering
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Apache Spark natural language processing library
Posted on October 22, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Excellent community blog and effort from the engineering team at John Snow Labs, explaining their contribution to an open-source Apache Spark Natural Language Processing (NLP) library. Apache Spark is a general-purpose cluster computing framework, with native support for distributed SQL, streaming, graph processing, and machine learning.
Tags data-and-analytics
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Making mistakes with GraphQL and lessons learnt
Posted on October 8, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Bertrand Dubaut article from presentation given at the Amsterdam Ruby meetup. Real life GraphQL in production implementation, mistakes made, corrections and lessons learnt. System supports multiple clients (mobile and web).
Tags data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis
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Apache Kafka exactly-once processing explained
Posted on August 15, 2017, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Adam Warski blog post explaining real time processing with Apache Kafka and what its' new major feature - exactly-once semantics - really means.
Tags data-and-analytics
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Comparing Docker vs. Kubernetes vs. Apache Mesos
Posted on August 14, 2017, Level beginner Resource Length long
Amr Abdelrazik published blog post in which he compares 3 popular open source projects - Docker vs. Kubernetes vs. Apache Mesos and summarizes why what you think you know about them is probably wrong.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd data-and-analytics