Big Data Resources

Elasticsearch Tutorial: Creating an Elasticsearch Cluster

This tutorial will provide some information on how to set up an Elasticsearch cluster and will add some operational tips and best practices to help you get started.

April 4, 2018

by Daniel Berman

· 67,659 Views · 11 Likes

Message Queuing (Kafka and Zookeeper) for Microservices and ML Solutions Pipelines

This article demonstrates the basic flow of using Apache Kafka and Zookeeper for microservice communications and how to get started.

Updated April 2, 2018

by Sudip Bhandari

· 12,101 Views · 8 Likes

5 More Hidden Secrets in Java

If you're a Java developer, these problems have probably given you a headache at some point. Read on to learn how to deal with these 5 tricky secrets.

March 27, 2018

by Justin Albano

CORE

· 33,544 Views · 44 Likes

Effective Strategies for Kafka Topic Partitioning

Partitioning strategies depend on the shape of the data and what type of processing the apps do. As you scale, you may need to adapt your strategies to handle new data volumes and shapes.

March 19, 2018

by Amy Boyle

· 27,192 Views · 12 Likes

March in IoT: Synergy and IoT

Want to see how technologies like AI and blockchain are helping solve IoT's problems? This news and tutorial roundup will help.

March 19, 2018

by Mike Gates

· 7,999 Views · 4 Likes

Top 5 Courses to Learn Python in 2018

Looking to learn Python this year? Come check out a list of the best five courses to help start your journey and get you closer to being a Python pro!

March 18, 2018

by Javin Paul

· 50,451 Views · 19 Likes

How to Test AI models: An Introduction Guide for QA

Get some simple answers to frequently asked questions regarding quality assurance within machine learning.

March 16, 2018

by Anastasiya Kazeeva

· 18,548 Views · 4 Likes

Orange: A Handy Open-Source Tool for Creating Machine Learning Models

Orange is an extremely easy-to-use, lightweight, drag-and-drop tool for building machine learning models and analyzing data. More importantly, it is open source!

March 13, 2018

by Sibanjan Das

CORE

· 15,771 Views · 12 Likes

Spring Boot 2.0 on ACID! Big Data + Spring Boot

Here is a guide to using Spring Boot 2.0 with Apache Hive LLAP ACID tables to make the most of a Big Data pipeline.

March 12, 2018

by Tim Spann

CORE

· 44,769 Views · 17 Likes

MongoDB and Data Streaming: Implementing a MongoDB Kafka Consumer

This article introduces Apache Kafka and then illustrates how to use MongoDB as a source and a destination for streamed data.

March 12, 2018

by Andrew Morgan

· 35,771 Views · 17 Likes

Apache Spark: 3 Reasons Why You Should Not Use RDDs

When it comes to building an enterprise-grade app in Spark, RDD isn't a good choice. Why? And if RDD is not a good choice, then what should we use?

March 8, 2018

by Himanshu Gupta

· 45,775 Views · 11 Likes

Deploying Elasticsearch 6.x on Azure With Terraform

Today, we will be looking at deploying a full Elasticsearch cluster using best practices end-to-end on Microsoft Azure.

March 6, 2018

by Itamar Syn-hershko

· 8,866 Views · 3 Likes

Spring Cloud Stream With Kafka

In this post, we take a look at how you can build a real-time streaming microservices application by using Spring Cloud Stream and Kafka.

March 6, 2018

by David Kiss

· 117,035 Views · 55 Likes

Logging With the Elastic Stack

It's imperative to have a system that can analyze large amounts of logs and present a singular view. Centralized logging provided by the Elastic Stack is a step in the right direction.

March 5, 2018

by Vaibhav Raizada

CORE

· 13,609 Views · 13 Likes

Kubernetes Monitoring: Best Practices, Methods, and Existing Solutions

Kubernetes handles containers in several computers, removing the complexity of handling distributed processing. But what's the best way to perform Kubernetes monitoring?

Updated February 23, 2018

by Daniel Berman

· 18,239 Views · 4 Likes

Simple Java Program to Append to a File in HDFS

Get the code and instructions needed to build a Java program to append to a file in HDFS, using Maven as the build tool.

February 23, 2018

by Simarpreet Kaur Monga

· 17,590 Views · 4 Likes

The Tech Files: Pushing Jupyter Notebooks to Production

Learn how one company embarked upon their data science journey to incorporate recommendation algorithms into their client-facing product.

February 21, 2018

by Teja Srivastasa

· 19,321 Views · 4 Likes

How to Be a Master in Software Development

Here are some of the subjects and general topics that you should familiarize yourself with to achieve mastery in software development.

February 20, 2018

by Alexsandro Souza

· 12,005 Views · 35 Likes

Introduction to Basic Statistics Measurements

Learn about the most common statistical methods that can help make data-driven decisions and understand the fundamental concepts of statistics in a jargon-free way.

February 16, 2018

by Sunil Kappal

· 11,859 Views · 10 Likes

Apache Spark and Apache NiFi Integration (Part 2 of 2)

Let's finish off our journey of integrating Apache Spark and Apache NiFi to cover both data ingestion and running Apache Spark jobs.

February 15, 2018

by Tim Spann

CORE

· 29,609 Views · 7 Likes

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