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What's The Most Important Part of the Open Source Ecosystem?

The community of users and contributors who share their knowledge, experience, and insights to improve collaboration, innovation, quality, and security.

February 15, 2018

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 6,953 Views · 5 Likes

Azure SQL Database vs. Azure SQL Data Warehouse

Let's look at two seemingly similar products from Microsoft: Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse. We'll see how they compare and when to use which one.

February 15, 2018

by Barry Luijbregts

· 17,323 Views · 4 Likes

Machine Learning With Decision Trees

This paper shows you how to get started with machine learning by applying decision trees using Python on an established dataset.

February 14, 2018

by Alan Brown

· 13,230 Views · 6 Likes

Develop Custom Ensemble Models Using Caret in R

Here we review some different ways to create ensemble learning models and compare the accuracy of their results, seeing how each functions better as a composite.

February 13, 2018

by Sibanjan Das

CORE

· 16,183 Views · 7 Likes

Scala vs. Python for Apache Spark

When using Apache Spark for cluster computing, you'll need to choose your language. Scala has its advantages, but see why Python is catching up fast.

February 13, 2018

by Tim Spann

CORE

· 31,624 Views · 13 Likes

A Beats Tutorial: Getting Started

Get acquainted with the E:L stack and working with the different beats: Filebeat, Packetbeat, Metricbeat, Auditbeat, Heartbeat, and Winlogbeat.

February 12, 2018

by Daniel Berman

· 14,311 Views · 6 Likes

MQTT + Apache Kafka + InfluxDB + SQL = IoT Harmony

This is a deep dive into real-time and time series IoT data using MQTT, Apache Kafka, InfluxDB, Lenses, and a handful of SQL code.

February 11, 2018

by Stefan Bocutiu

· 28,803 Views · 18 Likes

Real-World Problems Being Solved By Open Source

Learn about the real-world problems open source is tackling - pretty much everything, since 90 to 95% of all apps are built with open source software.

February 10, 2018

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 11,367 Views · 2 Likes

Java High-Level REST Client: Elasticsearch

Learn about using a Java high-level REST client with Elasticsearch to use API-specific methods that accept request objects as an argument and return response objects.

February 7, 2018

by Divya Dua

· 83,028 Views · 4 Likes

Dynamic Configuration Management in Microservice Architecture With Spring Cloud

Improve your own dynamic configuration management with Spring Cloud while learning how easy it is to reconfigure your application live without rebuilding or rebooting it.

February 5, 2018

by Bartłomiej Słota

· 61,482 Views · 12 Likes

Partitioning With Apache Kafka and Vert.x

Learn about the main features of Apache Kafka that may be useful when creating apps that consume messages, and learn about using it with Vert.x.

February 1, 2018

by Piotr Mińkowski

· 15,899 Views · 14 Likes

Reading Data From Oracle Database With Apache Spark

In this quick tutorial, learn how to use Apache Spark to read and use the RDBMS directly without having to go into the HDFS and store it there.

Updated February 1, 2018

by Emrah Mete

· 144,811 Views · 12 Likes

Microservice Communication Using Consul, Ribbon, and Feign - A Step-by-Step Guide

In this tutorial, you'll build an application and learn how to set up communication between its microservices using Consul, Ribbon, and Feign.

January 27, 2018

by Gitanjali Sahoo

· 46,638 Views · 4 Likes

implyr: R Interface for Apache Impala

A new R package implyr enables R users to query Impala from R using the popular package dplyr. Come and learn all about it!

January 25, 2018

by Ian Cook

· 7,088 Views · 1 Like

Monitoring Kafka Data Pipeline

Learn how to use open-source tools to develop a monitoring and testing solution for a pipeline using Kafka without writing any code.

January 24, 2018

by Randhir Singh

· 16,163 Views · 8 Likes

January in IoT: Building and Succeeding With IoT

Check out this month's compilation of IoT news and tutorials, including advice for getting started with IoT, building with Arduinos and RPis, and monetizing IoT data.

January 22, 2018

by Mike Gates

· 7,764 Views · 2 Likes

Messaging is a critical technology to execute the data pipelines that are a crucial part of application design. Learn about the different types of messaging.

January 19, 2018

by Jon Bock

· 86,090 Views · 8 Likes

Introduction to Azure Data Lake

In the first part of a series on the Azure Data Lake, get an understanding of the concept behind data lakes and learn how they work.

January 16, 2018

by Joydeep Das

· 22,707 Views · 3 Likes

Data Profiling With Oracle Data Mining

Data profiling is an important step to take before processing data. Learn how to do it with Oracle Data Mining, which is easily implemented in Oracle SQL Developer.

January 11, 2018

by Emrah Mete

· 9,517 Views · 5 Likes

3 Best IoT Frameworks for Beginners

With hundreds of available platforms to start your IoT project with, which one do you choose? We shed some light on the subject and look at three of the best choices.

January 10, 2018

by Raseel Bhagat

· 26,615 Views · 11 Likes

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