by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Today, Amazon Web Services Inc., an Amazon.com company, and Microsoft Corp. announced a new deep learning library, called Gluon, that allows developers of all skill levels to prototype, build, train and deploy sophisticated machine learning models for the cloud, devices at the edge and mobile apps. […]
Pepperdata Code Analyzer for Apache Spark Highlights Performance Bottlenecks for Developers
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Pepperdata, the DevOps for Big Data company, today announced Pepperdata Code Analyzer for Apache Spark, which provides Spark application developers the ability to identify performance issues and connect them to particular blocks of code within an application. Code Analyzer is a new product that follows on […]
Tech Jobs Rule in the Best Jobs of 2017, According to New Data from Indeed
by Angela Guess A recent press release states, “Indeed, the world’s number one job site, debuted today the best jobs of 2017, and all but a few jobs are technical roles. Seven of the top ten jobs are software engineers and developers, with positions in management, healthcare and engineering rounding out the top 25 list. […]
Debugging Complex SQL Queries
Click to learn more about author Michael Blaha. We favor the offloading of application logic to SQL queries. Developers can save time, effort, and reduce mistakes by substituting SQL for programming code. This leads to lengthy and complex SQL that must be debugged. It is common to write a SQL query that initially fails to execute. […]
Role of Containers in the Enterprise Data Center
Click to learn more about author Sushil Kumar. The core value of the use of containers lies in the fact that it enables an application-centric computing paradigm by unshackling applications from the underlying infrastructure. Containers should now be seen as something more than a tool to make developers more agile and productive. Container Hype and Confusion […]
Grading Database Quality, Part 1: Database Designs
While working on database projects, we often find ourselves doing reverse engineering. Reverse engineering is the inverse to normal development. Developers start with an application and work backwards to understand the software and infer its intent. Reverse engineering can apply to a variety of artifacts, such as hardware, programming code, and databases. Our focus here […]
Ten Reasons Why Developers Ignore Data Models — Revisited
Click here to learn more about author Michael Blaha. Here is a follow- up on my blog from several months ago on “Ten Reasons Why Developers Ignore Data Models.” Paraphrasing, reader Lawrence Hecht asked via Twitter if there is any way to tell from a schema if the developers had used a data model. A […]
A Guide to Python and R: When to Use Which for What
by Angela Guess Roger Huang recently wrote in The Next Web, “At Springboard, we pair mentors with learners in data science. We often get questions about whether to use Python or R – and we’ve come to a conclusion thanks to insight from our community of mentors and learners. Data science is the sexiest job […]