Interesting Stuff - Week 3, 2020

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.

Misc.

2020 Tech Predictions. As it is the beginning of a new year, (and a decade at that), you see prediction posts being published. Here is a predictions post for 2020 from an old colleague from the Developmentor days, Ted Neward.

Data Science

Are all samples created equal?: Boosting generative models via importance weighting. This is a very interesting post discussing how to correct the imperfections of generative models. Please go and read the post to see what techniques they use.
Data Literacy in 10 Minutes. In last weeks roundup, I mentioned that Buck Woody just started a blog post series about data literacy. Well, the link here is to the whole series posted as one single post on LinkedIn.

.NET

The Reunification of .NET 5. The post linked to here discusses how Microsoft tries to merge .NET Framework with .NET Core, in order to have one single .NET offering.

Streaming

BUILDING A GRAPH DATABASE USING KAFKA. Another excellent blog post about Kafka by Robert Yokota. In this post, he looks at how you can create a Kafka based graph database. Very exciting! Oh, and if you are interested in distributed systems, and/or, Kafka, his blog should be in your RSS feed.
Gunnar Morling on Change Data Capture and Debezium. This is an InfoQ podcast. The podcast discusses Debezium, the open-source distributed platform for change data capture (CDC).
Streams and Tables in Apache Kafka: A Primer. The post linked to here is the first in a series about Kafka, streams and tables. The series should be mandatory reading for anyone working with Kafka! I am making sure that anyone at Derivco working with Kafka reads this series!

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”:

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.