Interesting Stuff - Week 50: Year End!

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

data science
data in general
distributed computing
SQL Server
transactions (both db as well as non db)
and other “stuff”

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

NOTE: I started the “roundup” posts in the beginning of this year, as a way for me to force myself to keep my blog active, and to share with you what I find interesting in the tech-world. It is now coming up on Christmas and New Year, and I will take a break with these posts and come back in the beginning of next year.

.NET / CLR

How does .NET JIT a method? (also featuring ‘Tiered Compilation’). An awesome post by Matthew about how JIT:ting works in .NET. As a side note (I’ve said this before); if you are interested in the “plumbing” of .NET Matthew’s blog should be in your “must read” blog-list.

Distributed Computing

Distributed system exams. Murat posts about the final exam he gave in his Distributed Systems class. Cool stuff!! Some of the questions would be really good interview questions. Oh, and what I said about Matthew’s blog being a must read, the same holds true for Murat’s blog, especially if you are into distributed systems.

Streaming

Announcing the Apache Flink 1.4.0 Release. An early Christmas gift - Apache Flink 1.4 has now been released! Read the blog-post and the links to documentation to see what is new and improved.
Enabling Exactly-Once in Kafka Streams. I guess the title of the post says it all. A post about how to enable exactly once delivery in Apache Kafka streams.
The Blog Post on Monitoring an Apache Kafka Deployment to End Most Blog Posts. A truly awesome post about monitoring of Apache Kafka!

Computing

The future is quantum: Microsoft releases free preview of Quantum Development Kit. In Interesting Stuff - Week 39 I had a link about Microsoft’s Quantum Computing Toolkit. This post is about how the toolkit has actually been released in a preview version. Now I know what to do during the Christmas holiday!

Data Science

R in the Windows Subsystem for Linux. A post by David, how R can be run on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). WSL is very cool, and I use it for my blog (Jekyll is my blog-engine).
Getting Started with Python Web Services using Machine Learning Server. This post is a step by step tutorial about how to implement the data science life-cycle using Python on Microsoft Machine Learning Server.
How to use Tableau with SQL Server Machine Learning Services with R and Python. This post, talks about ow Tableau and SQL Server Machine Learning Services work seamlessly leveraging the power of R and Python.

SQL Server R Services

As I wrote in Interesting Stuff - Week 49, I’m not completely sure when I’ll be able to publish Internals - XVI. I am working on it, but I have a hard time getting the text to flow, and what approach to take. Anyway, it will be ready when it is ready, in the meantime, here is a link to Internals - XV.

~ Finally

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. And seeing that holidays are coming up - have a Great Holiday Season!!