Category: Books

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Data-driven business is booming. The dominant, driving force in business has arguably become a driving force in our daily lives for consumers and corporations alike.We now live in an age in which data is a more valuable resource than oil, and five of the world’s most valuable companies – Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft – all deal in data. However, just acknowledging data’s value won’t do. For a business to truly benefit from its information, a change in perspective is also required. With an additional $65 million in net income ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. In light of data’s prominence in modern business, organizations need to ensure they have a strong data foundation in place.The ascent of data’s value has been as steep as it is staggering. In 2016, it was suggested that more data would be created in 2017 than in the previous 5000 years of humanity. But what’s even more shocking is that the peak still not may not even be in sight. To put its value into context, the five most valuable businesses in the world all deal in data (Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Press blog. Author: Kim Spilker. Now through July 31, 2017, load your library with top-selling exam prep books and ebooks from Microsoft Press—the more you buy, the more you save! Use discount code EXAMPREP during checkout to save up to 55%. Choose from top-selling titles or shop by series: Exam Ref, MOS Study Guide, Training Guide, and Training Kit. Start shopping. Please note: Select Exam Ref titles can now be purchased with a Microsoft Official Practice Test fulfilled by MeasureUp. The EXAMPREP discount code offer is not valid on these tests and will only discount the book or ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Press blog. Author: Kim Spilker. Save 50%! Buy here. This offer expires on Sunday, June 25 at 7:00 AM GMT. By applying the principles in Adaptive Code, Second Edition, you can create code that adapts to new requirements and unforeseen scenarios without significant rework. Author Gary McLean Hall describes agile best practices, principles, and patterns for designing and writing code that can evolve more quickly and easily, with fewer errors, because it doesn’t impede change. This concise, undogmatic book bridges theory and practice, demonstrating its principles and patterns with working C# code examples. Learn more   Terms & ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: O'Reilly Media. Rope net. (source: Pixabay). JupyterCon is August 22-25, 2017, in New York City. Registration is now open. Paco Nathan leads the Learning group at O’Reilly Media. Known as a “player/coach” data scientist, Nathan led innovative data teams building ML apps at scale for several years and more recently was evangelist for Apache Spark, Apache Mesos, and Cascading. Below, Nathan shares his thoughts on the current and future state of Jupyter. He will also be speaking at JupyterCon, August 22-25, 2017, in New York City. 1. How has Jupyter changed the way you work? ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Press blog. Author: Kim Spilker. Save 50%! Buy here. This offer expires on Sunday, June 18 at 7:00 AM GMT. Dive into Windows Server 2016—and really put your Windows Server expertise to work. Focusing on Windows Server 2016’s most powerful and innovative features, this supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, tips, and workarounds—all you need to plan, implement, or manage Windows Server in enterprise, data center, cloud, and hybrid environments. Fully reflecting Windows Server new capabilities for the cloud-first era, Orin Thomas covers everything from Nano Server to Windows Server and Hyper-V Containers. You’ll discover how ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Press blog. Author: Kim Spilker. Save 50%! Buy here. This offer expires on Sunday, June 11 at 7:00 AM GMT. This Exam Ref is the official study guide for the new Microsoft 70-768 Developing SQL Data Models certification exam, the second of two exams required for MCSA: SQL 2016 Business Intelligence Development certification. Authored by Microsoft Data Platform MVP Stacia Varga, Exam Ref 70-768 Developing SQL Data Models offers professional-level preparation that helps candidates maximize their exam performance and sharpen their skills on the job. Learn more Terms & conditions Each week, on Sunday at 12:01 AM PST ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Jay Johnson. Utilizing a machine learning API to create a scalable model artifact pipeline Managing large, pre-trained predictive models across an organization and ensuring the same version is in production can be a challenge with the rapid pace of changes in the AI/machine learning space. Here, we have an approach that demonstrates how to automate building, storing, and deploying predictive models from a Remote Machine Learning Data Store hosted on Redis Labs. This approach is focused on showing how DevOps CI/CD artifact pipelines can be used to build and manage machine learning model artifacts with Jupyter ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Books. Author: Justin Kestelyn. There’s an important new addition coming to the Apache Hadoop book ecosystem. It’s now in early release! We are very happy to announce that the new Apache Hadoop book we have been writing for O’Reilly Media, Hadoop Application Architectures, is now available as an early release! It contains the first two chapters and can be found in O’Reilly’s Catalog and via Safari. The goal of this book is to give developers and architects guidance on architecting end-to-end solutions using Hadoop and tools in the ecosystem. We have split the book into ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Books. Author: Justin Kestelyn. Flavio Junqueira (PMC Chair of the Apache ZooKeeper project and a member of the Systems and Networking Group at Microsoft Research) and Benjamin Reed (PMC Member and Software Engineer at Facebook) are the co-authors of the new O’Reilly Media book ZooKeeper: Distributed Process Coordination. We had a chat with Flavio and Ben recently about the rationale for writing the book, and what it will add to the distributed systems conversation. Why did you decide to write this book? It seemed like a natural step. Although ZooKeeper has been around for a ... Read More