Interesting Stuff - Week 16, 2019

Throughout the week, I read a lot of blog-posts, articles, and so forth, that has to do with things that interest me:

This blog-post is the “roundup” of the things that have been most interesting to me, for the week just ending.

.NET

Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 4. Some new interesting features in Preview 4 of .NET Core 3.0. Hope we’ll see RTM soon.

Learn Enough Docker to be Useful Part 1: The Conceptual Landscape. This post is the first “episode” in a series about how to learn Docker. It is excellent, and for a Docker newbie as myself quite invaluable!
Key Kubernetes Concepts. This article covers essential Kubernetes concepts, and it’ll help you make a mental model of the most important Kubernetes terms to speed your understanding of the technology.
Data Lake: an asset or a liability?. This post looks at several important points to take into account when starting a Data Lake project.

The April release of Azure Data Studio is now available. As the title says; Microsoft has released a new version (April 2019) of Azure Data Studio. There are quite a few new interesting features, and I cannot wait to try out the SandDance extension.

How to create your own Deep Learning Project in Azure. In this article, the author takes us through how to use Azure Databricks with Tensorflow and Keras to build a deep learning project.
Automated machine learning from SQL Server with Azure Machine Learning. This post discusses how to leverage Azure Machine Learning Service from SQL Server Machine Learning Services.

Kafka Summit New York 2019 Session Videos. The Kafka Summit took place in New York earlier this month. This post links to the session videos.
Dawn of DevOps: Managing and Evolving Schemas with Confluent Control Center. This post is the first in a three-part series of DevOps related “stuff”. This first post looks at how to use Confluence Control Center to manage and evolve schemas.
Beat Cache Invalidation in ASP.NET Core Using Kafka and Debezium. This article discusses how to create a better in-memory cache in ASP.NET Core by using Change Data Capture on a database to send events to Apache Kafka via Debezium.
Pivoting Aggregates in Ksql. This is an excellent post by Robin where he show how we can do pivoting of aggregates in KSQL.

Installing R Packages in SQL Server Machine Learning Services - IV: Permissions. In this post, I look at permissions required when using CREATE EXTERNAL LIBRARY as well as ownership of the created libraries.

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.