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The Evolving Role of the Data Engineer
Author Andy Oram
Companies working to become data driven often view data scientists as heroes, but that overlooks the vital role that data engineers play in the process. While data scientists focus on finding new insights from datasets, data engineers deal with preparation—obtaining, clea....
Release Date 2020/04 -
An Introduction to Cloud Databases
Author Sam Alapati , Andy Oram , Wendy A. Neu , Vlad Vlasceanu
Cloud deployments have not only changed the way companies run mission critical databases; they’ve also transformed the roles of many people in production. With this practical report, database and system administrators, IT managers, and DevOps engineers will learn t....
Release Date 2019/11 -
Ballerina: A Language for Network-Distributed Applications
Author Andy Oram
Many modern programming languages include libraries to handle performance, multiple cores, structured data, errors or failures, and other tasks. Ballerina builds many of these tasks directly into the language. With this brief introduction, developers and software a....
Release Date 2019/10 -
Author Andy Oram
Managers and staff responsible for planning, hiring, and allocating resources need to understand how streaming data can fundamentally change their organizations. Companies everywhere are disrupting business, government, and society by using data and analytics to sh....
Release Date 2019/06 -
Author Andy Oram , Scott Gidley
Data is changing everything. Many industries today are being fundamentally transformed through the accumulation and analysis of large quantities of data, stored in diversified but flexible repositories known as data lakes. Whether your company has just begun to thi....
Release Date 2019/03 -
Author Zaheda Bhorat , Andy Oram
Free and open source software continues to pop up everywhere, frequently taking over entire fields of computing. Consider how Linux, Hadoop, Docker, Kubernetes, and TensorFlow have changed the way companies produce software. Or why corporate giants such as Amazon, ....
Release Date 2018/06 -
Author Andy Oram
Organizations across all industries are attempting to capitalize on the promise of Big Data by using their information assets as a source of competitive advantage. In doing so, they are investing heavily in areas such as analytic tools and new storage capabilities.....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Delivering Embedded Analytics in Modern Applications
Author Andy Oram , Federico Castanedo
Organizations are rapidly consuming more data than ever before, and to drive their competitive advantage, they’re demanding interactive visualizations and interactive analyses of that data be embedded in their applications and business processes. This will enable t....
Release Date 2017/06 -
Author Andy Oram , John King
The speed of change in web development, in terms of favored tooling, techniques, and standards, allows for much innovation in a vibrant ecosystem of developers. It also presents challenges for those trying to keep up. What can you earn as a web developer today? How....
Release Date 2017/04 -
Scaling Data Science for the Industrial Internet of Things
Author Andy Oram
One estimate holds that, by 2020, businesses involved with the Internet of Things will spend roughly 26% of their entire IoT cost on technologies and services that store, integrate, visualize, and analyze data from various IoT devices—or nearly twice what IoT compa....
Release Date 2017/02 -
Author Andy Oram
Despite a host of problems—from government corruption to public health issues and rising crime—Brazil is still the most vibrant Latin American economy. With its strong extractive, manufacturing, and service industries, IT in Brazil is booming as companies seek to d....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Trends Shaping the London Tech Scene
Author Andy Oram
London has been a world leader in finance, journalism, trade, the arts, and government for ages, but you don’t hear much about computer technology. With this report, you’ll learn that—while London is no Silicon Valley—the city’s tech scene over the past decade has ....
Release Date 2016/08 -
2016 European Software Development Salary Survey
Author John King , Andy Oram
Of the more than 5,000 participants in O’Reilly Media’s 2016 Software Development Salary Survey, 1,353 software engineers, developers, and other programming professionals live and work in Europe. This report includes complete survey results from those respondents, ....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Hadoop and Spark Performance for the Enterprise
Author Andy Oram
Virtually every enterprise depends on big data analysis, but distributed computing environments such as Hadoop and Spark are complicated, to say the least. Multiple users, business units, and workload types often compete for valuable computing resources. Monitoring....
Release Date 2016/06 -
Author Andy Oram
If you're a developer trying to get corporate buy-in for an IoT project, you need to understand that this pitch is much different than one for a typical new product or technology buy. Without fully realizing it, you may be asking for many things in one pitch: new ....
Release Date 2016/01 -
Search-Driven Business Analytics
Author Andy Oram
Compared to the speed and convenience of major web search engines, most business intelligence (BI) products are slow, stiff, and unresponsive. Business leaders today often wait days or weeks to get BI reports on inquiries about customers, products, or markets. But ....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Author Andy Oram
Organizations across many industries have recently created fast-growing repositories to deal with an influx of new data from many sources and often in multiple formats. To manage these data lakes, companies have begun to leave the familiar confines of relational da....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Author Greg Wilson , Andy Oram
Many claims are made about how certain tools, technologies, and practices improve software development. But which claims are verifiable, and which are merely wishful thinking? In this book, leading thinkers such as Steve McConnell, Barry Boehm, and Barbara Kitchenha....
Release Date 2010/10 -
Author Andy Oram , John Viega
Although most people don't give security much attention until their personal or business systems are attacked, this thought-provoking anthology demonstrates that digital security is not only worth thinking about, it's also a fascinating topic. Criminals succeed by....
Release Date 2009/04