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Stream analytics in the enterprise: A look at Intels internal IoT implementation
November 17, 2019

Stream analytics in the enterprise: A look at Intels internal IoT implementation

Moty Fania shares Intels IT experience implementing an on-premises IoT platform for internal use cases. The platform was based on open source big data technologies and containers and was designed as a multitenant platform with built-in analytical capabilities. Moty highlights the key lessons learned from this journey and offers a thorough review of the platforms architecture.

TensorFlow: Machine learning for everyone

TensorFlow: Machine learning for everyone

November 17, 2019

TensorFlow is an open source software library for numerical computation with a focus on machine learning. Its flexible architecture makes it great for research and production deployment. Sherry Moore offers a high-level introduction to TensorFlow and explains how to use it to train machine-learning models to make your next application smarter.
The business bottom line of data lakes: Real-life experiences

The business bottom line of data lakes: Real-life experiences

November 16, 2019

Data is no longer a by-product of business transactions; now, data is the business. Franz Aman explains how data lakes can put the power of big data into the hands of every business person, sharing the inside scoop on how he turned marketing into a new kind of revenue-generation machine and interviewing an Informatica customer about how data lakes have innovated and transformed their business.
The curious case of the data scientist

The curious case of the data scientist

November 16, 2019

David Selby shares some of the challenges he has faced coercing meaning from data and explains why he is particularly enthusiastic about the latest technological developments in the data science field.
The future of (artificial) intelligence

The future of (artificial) intelligence

November 16, 2019

The news media in recent months has been full of dire warnings about the risk that AI poses to the human race. Should we be concerned? If so, what can we do about it? While some in the mainstream AI community dismiss these concerns, Stuart Russell argues that a fundamental reorientation of the field is required.
The Internet of Things: Its the (sensor) data, stupid

The Internet of Things: Its the (sensor) data, stupid

November 16, 2019

Martin Willcox shares the lessons he's learned from successful Teradata IoT projects about about how to manage and leverage sensor data and explains why data management, data integration, and multigenre analytics are foundational to driving business value from IoT initiatives.
Triggers in Apache Beam (incubating): User-controlled balance of completeness, latency, and cost in streaming big data pipelines

Triggers in Apache Beam (incubating): User-controlled balance of completeness, latency, and cost in streaming big data pipelines

November 16, 2019

Drawing on important real-world use cases, Kenneth Knowles delves into the details of the language- and runner-independent semantics developed for triggers in Apache Beam, demonstrating how the semantics support the use cases as well as all of the above variability in streaming systems. Kenneth then describes some of the particular implementations of those semantics in Google Cloud Dataflow.
Watermarks: Time and progress in streaming dataflow and beyond

Watermarks: Time and progress in streaming dataflow and beyond

November 16, 2019

Watermarks are a system for measuring progress and completeness in out-of-order stream processing systems and are used to emit correct results in a timely way. Given the trend toward out-of-order processing in current streaming systems, understanding watermarks is an increasingly important skill. Slava Chernyak explains watermarks and demonstrates how to apply them using real-world cases.
What does your smart car know about you?

What does your smart car know about you?

November 16, 2019

In the last few years, auto makers and others have introduced devices to connect cars to the Internet and gather data about the vehicles activity, and auto insurers and local governments are just starting to require these devices. Charles Givre gives an overview of the security risks as well as the potential privacy invasions associated with this unique type of data collection.
Whats next for music services? The answer is in the data

Whats next for music services? The answer is in the data

November 16, 2019

Can our real-time distributed data systems help predict whether high-resolution audio is the future of digital music? What about content curation? Paul Shannon and Alan Hannaway explore the future of music services through data and explain why 7digital believes well-curated, high-resolution listening experiences are the future of digital music services.
Advanced Docker developer workflows on Mac OS and Windows

Advanced Docker developer workflows on Mac OS and Windows

November 15, 2019

Most developers use a Mac or Windows host to develop Docker Linux containers, which complicates filesystem sharing between the host and the Linux container and requires replicating Linux networking configuration locally. Anil Madhavapeddy and Richard Mortier outline ways to make using Docker on a Mac or Windows transparent, thus enabling a rapid test/edit/deployment cycle for microservices.
Analysis of the Xen code review process: An example of software development analytics

Analysis of the Xen code review process: An example of software development analytics

November 15, 2019

The Xen Project's code contributions have been growing 10% a year. However, during this period of growth, the code review process became much slower, leading to issues in the community. Lars Kurth and Daniel Izquierdo explain how software development analytics came to the rescue: it provided surprising insights that allowed the project members to understand issues and take corrective action.
AOL's return to open source: An overview of Java 8 library cyclops-react

AOL's return to open source: An overview of Java 8 library cyclops-react

November 15, 2019

AOL is increasingly encouraging its engineers to contribute back to the community. John McClean offers an introductory overview of cyclops-react and demonstrates how it can integrate with other new technologies in the Java 8 ecosystem, such as Pivotal Reactor, Functional Java, and Javaslang.
Applied humaning for technical interviews

Applied humaning for technical interviews

November 15, 2019

So youre going to be an interviewer. Maybe you get some legal training, but soon enough youre out there experimentingwith someone elses career. Aside from the odd polite note from a candidate following up, you get no feedback, so how do you know what youre doing well (or not)? Cate Huston offers concrete strategies for making the part of the experience you control better for the interviewee.
Auto-updating and automated container application delivery

Auto-updating and automated container application delivery

November 15, 2019

Using Chef or Puppet to manage your containers? Manually pushing on green to your orchestration system? David Dennis outlines an easier, better way that notifies you of available stack updates, automatically creates new Dockerfiles, and integrates Slack, Bitnami Stacksmith, Jenkins, and Kubernetes.
Becoming friends with Cassandra and Spark

Becoming friends with Cassandra and Spark

November 15, 2019

Jon Haddad and Dani Traphagen explore all the basics youll need to become best buds with the radically scalable, always-on, and increasingly popular Apache Cassandra database. But wait, there's more. Jon and Dani also cover using Apache Spark for large-scale data processing. What else do you need to know to make new friends?
Blocks in containers: Lessons learned from containerizing Minecraft

Blocks in containers: Lessons learned from containerizing Minecraft

November 15, 2019

Its clear containers are here to stay for building reliable, scalable applications. But what about applications developed prior to the advent of containerization? Using Minecraft as her example, Julia Ferraioli explains why retrofitting technology for containers poses conceptual and practical challenges that require an approach different than starting container native.
Why is my Hadoop job slow?

Why is my Hadoop job slow?

November 15, 2019

Hadoop is used to run large-scale jobs over hundreds of machines. Considering the complexity of Hadoop jobs, it's no wonder that Hadoop jobs running slower than expected remains a perennial source of grief for developers. Bikas Saha draws on his experience debugging and analyzing Hadoop jobs to describe the approaches and tools that can solve this difficult problem.
Build to lead: Solve leadership challenges using the Lego Serious Play methodology

Build to lead: Solve leadership challenges using the Lego Serious Play methodology

November 14, 2019

Dieter Reuther and Donna Denio demonstrate a universal language that helps you maneuver through complex leadership challenges. Using a business case study, they guide attendees through the Lego Serious Play methodology to explain how to break down situations into simple 3D models. This is an interactive session with audience participation. Each attendee will get their own Lego set.
Build your child their very own Node.js Frozen bot

Build your child their very own Node.js Frozen bot

November 14, 2019

Gabrielle Crevecoeur dives into the world of NodeBots. Using Node.js, the Johnny-Five framework, and an Arduino, Gabrielle walks participants through creating a bot, step by step. Although the NodeBot you build will respond to voice recognition, you'll leave able to create NodeBots with any functionality you like.
Building a deployment pipeline with Jenkins

Building a deployment pipeline with Jenkins

November 14, 2019

Brent Laster explains how to use Jenkins and illustrates how to easily integrate it with other open source technologies, such as Git, as he walks attendees through building a simple multistage deployment pipeline (managed and automated through Jenkins) that implements principles of continuous integration and continuous delivery.
Building a fundable open source company

Building a fundable open source company

November 14, 2019

You've got a great idea, and you realize that open source is the way to build it. So how do you pick the right business model to grow your idea into a big company? Ariel Tseitlin explores what has worked in the past and what investors want to see to give you funding, along the way identifying the factors that differentiate successful businesses from unsuccessful ones.
Building a pipeline: The case for hiring junior developers

Building a pipeline: The case for hiring junior developers

November 14, 2019

Any hiring manager in a technology company knows that the hardest problem to solve is hiring. There never seem to be enough experienced developers available at any given point in time. But many of those same hiring managers will say, "We don't hire junior developers." Tech team-builder Wade Minter makes the case for why your company should hire and train junior developers.
Civic data: Using open source data to create socially impactful data-driven products

Civic data: Using open source data to create socially impactful data-driven products

November 14, 2019

A plethora of data has been made freely available on the Web. A large chunk of this data is civic data: on education, social welfare, demographics, and the like. Vida Williams explains how this data can be assembled into open source products that can help states, cities, municipalities, nonprofit organizations, and citizens make decisions that will positively impact their immediate neighborhoods.
Closing the loop: Open source community projects are changing healthcare

Closing the loop: Open source community projects are changing healthcare

November 14, 2019

What happens when an open source community develops around a group of patients who are frustrated with their medical devices? You end up with an artificial pancreas, of course. Dana Lewis, one of the original creators of the open source artificial pancreas, examines how open source communities enable innovation in unexpected placeslike healthcare.
Computer science artists unite! An open source retrospective to glimpse our future

Computer science artists unite! An open source retrospective to glimpse our future

November 14, 2019

Angel Diaz provides a retrospective on IBMs deep history and its contributions to the evolution of open source technology in order to catch a glimpse of a future that is rooted in open source technologies. Angel tells the story of open source projects that exemplify the new hardcore concepts we'll all need to accelerate innovation and success.
Concurrency + Distribution = Scalability + Availability: A journey architecting Erlang systems

Concurrency + Distribution = Scalability + Availability: A journey architecting Erlang systems

November 14, 2019

Erlang/OTP has for years been described as the secret sauce to writing scalable and available systems. However, Erlang alone will not perform any magic. Francesco Cesarini walks attendees through the topology patterns of modern distributed Erlang architectures, discussing the trade-offs in scalability and reliability, the actor model, the failure model, and the built-in distribution model.
Containerizing legacy applications

Containerizing legacy applications

November 14, 2019

Docker containers are targeted at microservices: lean, modularized, single-process applications that are easy to quickly deploy. However, older, bloated multiprocess (aka legacy) applications can also take advantage of containers. Jose De La Rosa shares his experiences with containerizing legacy applications at Dell.