Interesting Stuff - Week 4

Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, and so forth, 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 blog-post is the “roundup” of the things that have been most interesting to me, for the week just ending.

SQL Server

SQL Server 2017 on Linux webcast series. I guess that anyone interested in SQL Server knows about SQL Server on Linux. This blog-post announces a series of webcasts covering SQL Server on Linux.
Simplify data access using de-normalized models. A very interesting post by Jovan how to use JSON to de-normalise database models.

.NET

Resources for Learning about .NET Internals. Matthew posts some very awesome links if you want to learn about .NET internals!

Misc.

A practitioner’s guide to reading programming languages papers. A “cheat-sheet” from Adrian about how to read programming language white-papers.

Data Science

Data Science Virtual Machine. This is the first episode of the AI Show from Channel9 talking about the Data Science Virtual Machine (DSVM).
How to build your own AlphaZero AI using Python and Keras. In the week 2 roundup I linked to a post about AlphaZero, the AI application from DeepMind, who teaches itself to play multiple board-games, like GO, chess, etc. In this post, David Foster - from Applied Data Science - shows how you can build something similar with Python and Keras. Very cool!!

Streaming

Streaming Data in the Enterprise Hits a Tipping Point: Our 2018 Predictions. Prediction from dataArtisans about the streaming and streaming technologies in 2018.
Managing Large State in Apache Flink: An Intro to Incremental Checkpointing. An introduction to check-pointing, which is the mechanism Apache Flink uses to make application state fault tolerant. Extremely interesting!

SQL Server R Services

I am busy finishing off the last post about SQL Server R Services internals: Internals - XX, and I hope to be able to publish it this coming week sometime. After the Internals - XX, there will be one or two more posts in the series, but then I am done.

~ 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.