Interesting Stuff - Week 33

Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, etc., that has to do with things that interest me

This is the “roundup” of the posts that has been most interesting to me, for the week just gone by.

.NET

Announcing .NET Core 2.0. Well, not much to add - .NET Core 2.0 final has been released!
Disassembling .NET Code with BenchmarkDotNet. Adam has enhanced BenchmarkDotNet to also disassemble the .NET code that is benchmarked.

The DMV Diaries: sys.dm_os_threads. So while Ewald is on a threads and tasks journey, he also peeks into the diaries of DMV’s. This is the first, in hopefully many to come posts about the guts of DMV’s. I have said it before, and I say it again; Ewald’s blog is a MUST read if you are interested in the inner workings of SQL Server! What are you waiting for - go ahead and read it!!!

Event Grid. This is so “freaking” awesome, so there are no words for it! A single service for managing routing of all events from any source to any destination. Designed for high availability, consistent performance, and dynamic scale! I so have to ~~play with it~~ research this!

On the design of distributed programming models. Is there a need for a programming model for distributed computing? Adrian dissects a white paper making the case for it.

It’s been a while since I have had any coverage of Apache Kafka and / or Apache Flink. Fortunately that changes today!

Flink Forward Berlin Preview: Apache Flink Internals Sessions. A preview of what is to come at the Flink Forward conference in Berlin September 11 - 13. All I can say is that I hope there will be video recordings available after the conference, as it looks awesome!
Using Apache Kafka as a Scalable, Event-Driven Backbone for Service Architectures. A practical guide to building event driven systems using Apache Kafka as the message broker.
Leveraging the Power of a Database ‘Unbundled’. “Hello my name is Niels, and I am a database guy!”. That’s me; but this, this is “absofreakinglutely” awesome! I am right now installing Docker so I can download Kafka containers onto my Windows machine and start playing with this!!!

How to build an image recognizer in R using just a few images. The boys at Revolution Analytics talks about how to build your own image recognizer using the new Image Featurizer capabilities of Microsoft R Server. Go forth and read, this is cool!!!
A Data Science Microsoft Project Template You Can Use in Your Solutions. Buck Woody blogs about a Microsoft Project template for Data Science built on top of the Microsoft Team Data Science Process.
20 years of the R Core Group. The Revolution Analytics guys points out that it was 20 year since the R Core Group was established. Happy Birthday!!!

Microsoft SQL Server R Services - Internals IX. I published “episode” nine of the SQL Server R Services Internals “saga”. Here we look at what communication methods are being used between the various components in play when we execute sp_execute_external_script.

That’s all for this week. I hope you enjoy what I did put together. If you have ideas for what to cover, please comment on this post or ping me.