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.
Data Science / Machine Learning
- Open Sourcing Manifold, a Visual Debugging Tool for Machine Learning. An interesting blog post, discussing Uber’s visual debugging tool for machine learning. A couple of guys at Derivco has started looking at it and is quite impressed.
- Data Literacy. In this blog post, Buck Woody, (“Mr Data Science” at Microsoft), announces a series of posts covering Data Literacy. If you are into data, read the posts - it is well worth it!
VS Code
- Create a Reproducible Dev Environment with VS Code. This blog post covers how you can create dev environments quickly using VS Code and Docker. Seeing how I struggle with setting up dev environments, this post comes in really handy!
Streaming
- Streaming messages from RabbitMQ into Kafka with Kafka Connect. This is an interesting post by Robin Moffat, where he looks at getting messages from RabbitMQ in Kafka. Seeing that we, ( Derivco), are starting our Kafka journey and we have quite a lot of Rabbit instances this post comes in very handy!
- Exploring ksqlDB window start time. This is another interesting post by Robin. In this post, he covers how time windows behave in ksqlDB.
Microsoft Ignite The Tour | Johannesburg
Microsoft’s Ignite conference took place in November last year, and now, (as they did last year), Microsoft takes Ignite on the road: Microsoft Ignite The Tour.
The tour comes to Johannesburg January 30 - 31, and I am lucky enough to present at the event. I am doing three presentations, and also some community “booth duty”:
- A Lap Around SQL Server Big Data Cluster
- Simplify and Scale Your Data Pipelines with Azure Delta Lake
- Improve Customer Lifetime Value using Azure Databricks & Delta Lake
The conference is free of charge, so register now and come and say Hi!
~ 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.
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