Andrew Wang, Cloudera
Andrew Wang is a software engineer at Cloudera on the HDFS team. Previously, he was a PhD student in the AMP Lab at UC Berkeley, where he worked on problems related to distributed systems and warehouse-scale computing. He is...
Author: Roberto Zicari
Beginning Object-Oriented Programming with C#
Beginning Object-Oriented Programming with C# Jack Purdum ISBN: 978-1-118-33692-2 Paperback, Wrox. 624 pages November 2012 The ideal beginner’s guide to C# and object-oriented programming Wrox beginners’ guides have the perfect formula for getting programming newcomers...
Scaling at Scale: Ideal Point Estimation with ‘Big-Data’
Scaling at Scale: Ideal Point Estimation with ‘Big-Data’ Jonathan Paul Olmsted, Princeton University February 27, 2014 Abstract The robust literature on the measurement of ideology in political science includes approaches for estimation within multiple inferential...
Real-Time Analytics: Techniques to Analyze and Visualize Streaming Data
Real-Time Analytics: Techniques to Analyze and Visualize Streaming Data Byron Ellis ISBN: 978-1-118-83791-7 456 pages, Wiley August 2014 Description Construct a robust end-to-end solution for analyzing and visualizing streaming data Real-time analytics is the...
Developing Analytic Talent: Becoming a Data Scientist
Developing Analytic Talent: Becoming a Data Scientist Vincent Granville ISBN: 978-1-118-81008-8 336 pages, Wiley May 2014 Description Learn what it takes to succeed in the the most in-demand tech job Harvard Business Review calls...
Applied Predictive Analytics: Principles and Techniques for the Professional Data Analyst
Applied Predictive Analytics: Principles and Techniques for the Professional Data Analyst Dean Abbott ISBN: 978-1-118-72796-6 456 pages, Wiley May 2014 Description Learn the art and science of predictive analytics — techniques that get...
Google BigQuery Analytics
Google BigQuery Analytics Jordan Tigani, Siddartha Naidu ISBN: 978-1-118-82482-5 528 pages, Wiley July 2014 Description How to effectively use BigQuery, avoid common mistakes, and execute sophisticated queries against large datasets Google BigQuery Analytics is the perfect...
Transactions with Consistency Choices
Transactions with Consistency Choices on Geo-Replicated Cloud Storage Douglas Terry, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Ramakrishna Kotla, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Marcos K. Aguilera Microsoft Research Silicon Valley September 2013, MSR-TR-2013-82 ABSTRACT Pileus is a replicated and scalable key-value...
VOLTDB IN-MEMORY DATABASE ACHIEVES BEST-IN-CLASS RESULTS, RUNNING IN THE CLOUD, ON THE YCSB BENCHMARK
VOLTDB IN-MEMORY DATABASE ACHIEVES BEST-IN-CLASS RESULTS, RUNNING IN THE CLOUD, ON THE YCSB BENCHMARK written by Alex Rogers, VoltDB on May 7, 2014 The development team at VoltDB recently ran VoltDB v4.2 against the Yahoo Cloud...
Impact of Java Garbage Collection on in-memory databases
IMPACT OF JAVA GARBAGE COLLECTION ON IN-MEMORY DATABASES written by Ariel Weisberg, VoltDB on May 2, 2014 Some users of Java, and specifically Java as it is used in in-memory database technology, worry Java’s ‘Garbage Collection’...