Wednesday, 30 March 2016

Online Course: AngularJS Services In-depth

I took this course as i am not very familiar with the differences between provider, factory, service, const, and value. Plus I need to use the module.config to perform some factory registration and flyweight design pattern for my work. But the book offer more, particularly I was quite happy to get a better understanding of $q, $http, $route, $cookie, $cookieStore, and $cacheFactory service. I would say the explanation of provider is very good.

Link: https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/angularjs-services-in-depth/table-of-contents

Book: Data Algorithms Recipes for Scaling Up with Hadoop and Spark

Very nice book which teaches how to implement mechine learning and data mining techniques such as NBC, recommender, clustering, etc. Implemented in java, the book provides codes in both hadoop mapreduce and apache spark in simple-to-understand and clean manner. Have re-coded most of the algorithms in the book except for chapters dealing with some of the bio stuff which i am not particularly interested at the moment.

Book: Apache Spark Graph Processing

This book provided me guide on how to use apache spark graphx to graph processing in my project. While the book provides only basic implementation and intro to graphx features such as visualization, aggregateMessages, and pregel, I gain some useful insights after re-implemented most of the codes in the book (knowledge about scala required)

Link: https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/apache-spark-graph-processing

Book: Hadoop MapReduce v2 Cookbook

Use the material of this book to build the mapreduce algorithms and hdfs infrastructure for my project. Very good introduction in terms of hadoop mapreduce and how to set up hdfs and yarn in virtual environment.

Link: https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/hadoop-mapreduce-v2-cookbook-second-edition


Wednesday, 3 February 2016

Online Course: Administering an ElasticSearch Cluster

Glad to complete this course. Wonderful materials for things like rolling restart for es upgrade, rolling index, snapshot via curator, the head plugin and es health check tips. Learned a lot on how to run es cluster properly.

Link: https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/administering-elasticsearch-cluster/table-of-contents

Saturday, 30 January 2016

Online Course: Java Web Fundamental

Completed this course to refresh my knowledge on java servlet and jsp (not bad to link the servlet and web-app config with my knowledge with spring mvc, but the jstl part is bit difficult to digest since a js framework such as angularjs can make things much easier than what a hand crafted tag library need).

Link: https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/java-web-fundamentals/table-of-contents

Thursday, 28 January 2016

Online Course: Practical Networking

Completed this course! simple but very practical lessons on how to use tools such as ping, traceroute, arp, nslookup, ifconfig, netsh, netstat, telnet, etc to isolate network problems to network layer, scope and causes.

Link: https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/practical-networking/table-of-contents

Tuesday, 19 January 2016

Online Course: Design Patterns in Java: Structural

Completed this course to refresh my knowledge on structural design patterns.

Link: https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/design-patterns-java-structural/table-of-contents

Online Course: Patterns for Building Distributed Systems for The Enterprise

Completed this course. Quite good a mind opener, gain some new perspective of distributed computing, particularly the CQRS via MQ and ESB, as well as the append-only models (esp the event streaming and the historical model). This course gave some good ideas on how to proceed with the refactoring processing of a big data project working on.

Link: https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/cqrs-theory-practice/table-of-contents

Monday, 11 January 2016

Online Course: Hands-On Ansible

Completed this course. Learn a few tricks from the course just as the jinja templates and the roles management as well as how to use variables obtained by grab_facts

Link: https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/hands-on-ansible/table-of-contents

Friday, 8 January 2016

Online Course: SQL on Hadoop - Analyzing Big Data with Hive

Completed this course. While the pace of the course is a bit fast, it is packed with many useful stuff from executing sql on top of hadoop using Hive, things such as Distributed By, Sort By, GroupSet, Multiple Insert, UDAF, UDTF are really cool. Will need to revisit the course materials when I start to use Hive in development.

Link: https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/sql-hadoop-analyzing-big-data-hive/table-of-contents

Online Course: Concurrent Programming with Go

Completed this course, very good material for learning go for concurrent programming. Much appreciate the authors showing how concurrency models such as events, callback, promise, mutex can be implemented via goroutines and channel. The prime number generator code is amazing and elegant. Also got several tips on using some standard libraries from go, which is nice.

Link: https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/go-concurrent-programming/table-of-contents

Wednesday, 6 January 2016

Online Course: Go Fundamentals

Completed this course to learn go for one of my projects. The course material while interesting and easy-to-learn is quite far away from practical use of go, so have to  read up other materials.

Link: https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/go-fundamentals/table-of-contents