The Apache Ignite Book

The Apache Ignite Book
Author: Michael Zheludkov
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2019-02-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0359439373

Apache Ignite is one of the most widely used open source memory-centric distributed, caching, and processing platform. This allows the users to use the platform as an in-memory computing framework or a full functional persistence data stores with SQL and ACID transaction support. On the other hand, Apache Ignite can be used for accelerating existing Relational and NoSQL databases, processing events & streaming data or developing Microservices in fault-tolerant fashion. This book addressed anyone interested in learning in-memory computing and distributed database. This book intends to provide someone with little to no experience of Apache Ignite with an opportunity to learn how to use this platform effectively from scratch taking a practical hands-on approach to learning. Please see the table of contents for more details.

Apache Ignite Quick Start Guide

Apache Ignite Quick Start Guide
Author: Sujoy Acharya
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2018-11-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1789344069

Build efficient, high-performance & scalable systems to process large volumes of data with Apache Ignite Key FeaturesUnderstand Apache Ignite's in-memory technologyCreate High-Performance app components with IgniteBuild a real-time data streaming and complex event processing systemBook Description Apache Ignite is a distributed in-memory platform designed to scale and process large volume of data. It can be integrated with microservices as well as monolithic systems, and can be used as a scalable, highly available and performant deployment platform for microservices. This book will teach you to use Apache Ignite for building a high-performance, scalable, highly available system architecture with data integrity. The book takes you through the basics of Apache Ignite and in-memory technologies. You will learn about installation and clustering Ignite nodes, caching topologies, and various caching strategies, such as cache aside, read and write through, and write behind. Next, you will delve into detailed aspects of Ignite’s data grid: web session clustering and querying data. You will learn how to process large volumes of data using compute grid and Ignite’s map-reduce and executor service. You will learn about the memory architecture of Apache Ignite and monitoring memory and caches. You will use Ignite for complex event processing, event streaming, and the time-series predictions of opportunities and threats. Additionally, you will go through off-heap and on-heap caching, swapping, and native and Spring framework integration with Apache Ignite. By the end of this book, you will be confident with all the features of Apache Ignite 2.x that can be used to build a high-performance system architecture. What you will learnUse Apache Ignite’s data grid and implement web session clusteringGain high performance and linear scalability with in-memory distributed data processingCreate a microservice on top of Apache Ignite that can scale and performPerform ACID-compliant CRUD operations on an Ignite cacheRetrieve data from Apache Ignite’s data grid using SQL, Scan and Lucene Text queryExplore complex event processing concepts and event streamingIntegrate your Ignite app with the Spring frameworkWho this book is for The book is for Big Data professionals who want to learn the essentials of Apache Ignite. Prior experience in Java is necessary.

Apache Superset Quick Start Guide

Apache Superset Quick Start Guide
Author: Shashank Shekhar
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2018-12-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1788999568

Integrate open source data analytics and build business intelligence on SQL databases with Apache Superset. The quick, intuitive nature for data visualization in a web application makes it easy for creating interactive dashboards. Key FeaturesWork with Apache Superset's rich set of data visualizationsCreate interactive dashboards and data storytellingEasily explore dataBook Description Apache Superset is a modern, open source, enterprise-ready business intelligence (BI) web application. With the help of this book, you will see how Superset integrates with popular databases like Postgres, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, and MySQL. You will learn to create real time data visualizations and dashboards on modern web browsers for your organization using Superset. First, we look at the fundamentals of Superset, and then get it up and running. You'll go through the requisite installation, configuration, and deployment. Then, we will discuss different columnar data types, analytics, and the visualizations available. You'll also see the security tools available to the administrator to keep your data safe. You will learn how to visualize relationships as graphs instead of coordinates on plain orthogonal axes. This will help you when you upload your own entity relationship dataset and analyze the dataset in new, different ways. You will also see how to analyze geographical regions by working with location data. Finally, we cover a set of tutorials on dashboard designs frequently used by analysts, business intelligence professionals, and developers. What you will learnGet to grips with the fundamentals of data exploration using SupersetSet up a working instance of Superset on cloud services like Google Compute EngineIntegrate Superset with SQL databasesBuild dashboards with SupersetCalculate statistics in Superset for numerical, categorical, or text dataUnderstand visualization techniques, filtering, and grouping by aggregationManage user roles and permissions in SupersetWork with SQL LabWho this book is for This book is for data analysts, BI professionals, and developers who want to learn Apache Superset. If you want to create interactive dashboards from SQL databases, this book is what you need. Working knowledge of Python will be an advantage but not necessary to understand this book.

The Wrath of Cochise

The Wrath of Cochise
Author: Terry Mort
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1639361340

In February 1861, the twelve-year-old son of Arizona rancher John Ward was kidnapped by Apaches. What followed would ignite a Southwestern frontier war between the Chiricahuas and the US Army that would last twenty-five years. In the days following the initial melee, innocent passersby would be taken as hostages on both sides, and almost all of them would be brutally slaughtered. Thousands of lives would be lost, the economies of Arizona and New Mexico would be devastated, and in the end, the Chiricahua way of life would essentially cease to exist. In a gripping narrative that often reads like an old-fashioned Western novel, Terry Mort explores the collision of these two radically different cultures in a masterful account of one of the bloodiest conflicts in our frontier history.

Apache Hive Essentials

Apache Hive Essentials
Author: Dayong Du
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2018-06-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1789136512

This book takes you on a fantastic journey to discover the attributes of big data using Apache Hive. Key Features Grasp the skills needed to write efficient Hive queries to analyze the Big Data Discover how Hive can coexist and work with other tools within the Hadoop ecosystem Uses practical, example-oriented scenarios to cover all the newly released features of Apache Hive 2.3.3 Book Description In this book, we prepare you for your journey into big data by frstly introducing you to backgrounds in the big data domain, alongwith the process of setting up and getting familiar with your Hive working environment. Next, the book guides you through discovering and transforming the values of big data with the help of examples. It also hones your skills in using the Hive language in an effcient manner. Toward the end, the book focuses on advanced topics, such as performance, security, and extensions in Hive, which will guide you on exciting adventures on this worthwhile big data journey. By the end of the book, you will be familiar with Hive and able to work effeciently to find solutions to big data problems What you will learn Create and set up the Hive environment Discover how to use Hive's definition language to describe data Discover interesting data by joining and filtering datasets in Hive Transform data by using Hive sorting, ordering, and functions Aggregate and sample data in different ways Boost Hive query performance and enhance data security in Hive Customize Hive to your needs by using user-defined functions and integrate it with other tools Who this book is for If you are a data analyst, developer, or simply someone who wants to quickly get started with Hive to explore and analyze Big Data in Hadoop, this is the book for you. Since Hive is an SQL-like language, some previous experience with SQL will be useful to get the most out of this book.

A Misplaced Massacre

A Misplaced Massacre
Author: Ari Kelman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2013-02-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674071034

In the early morning of November 29, 1864, with the fate of the Union still uncertain, part of the First Colorado and nearly all of the Third Colorado volunteer regiments, commanded by Colonel John Chivington, surprised hundreds of Cheyenne and Arapaho people camped on the banks of Sand Creek in southeastern Colorado Territory. More than 150 Native Americans were slaughtered, the vast majority of them women, children, and the elderly, making it one of the most infamous cases of state-sponsored violence in U.S. history. A Misplaced Massacre examines the ways in which generations of Americans have struggled to come to terms with the meaning of both the attack and its aftermath, most publicly at the 2007 opening of the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. This site opened after a long and remarkably contentious planning process. Native Americans, Colorado ranchers, scholars, Park Service employees, and politicians alternately argued and allied with one another around the question of whether the nation’s crimes, as well as its achievements, should be memorialized. Ari Kelman unearths the stories of those who lived through the atrocity, as well as those who grappled with its troubling legacy, to reveal how the intertwined histories of the conquest and colonization of the American West and the U.S. Civil War left enduring national scars. Combining painstaking research with storytelling worthy of a novel, A Misplaced Massacre probes the intersection of history and memory, laying bare the ways differing groups of Americans come to know a shared past.

Programming Persistent Memory

Programming Persistent Memory
Author: Steve Scargall
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2020-01-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1484249321

Beginning and experienced programmers will use this comprehensive guide to persistent memory programming. You will understand how persistent memory brings together several new software/hardware requirements, and offers great promise for better performance and faster application startup times—a huge leap forward in byte-addressable capacity compared with current DRAM offerings. This revolutionary new technology gives applications significant performance and capacity improvements over existing technologies. It requires a new way of thinking and developing, which makes this highly disruptive to the IT/computing industry. The full spectrum of industry sectors that will benefit from this technology include, but are not limited to, in-memory and traditional databases, AI, analytics, HPC, virtualization, and big data. Programming Persistent Memory describes the technology and why it is exciting the industry. It covers the operating system and hardware requirements as well as how to create development environments using emulated or real persistent memory hardware. The book explains fundamental concepts; provides an introduction to persistent memory programming APIs for C, C++, JavaScript, and other languages; discusses RMDA with persistent memory; reviews security features; and presents many examples. Source code and examples that you can run on your own systems are included. What You’ll Learn Understand what persistent memory is, what it does, and the value it brings to the industry Become familiar with the operating system and hardware requirements to use persistent memory Know the fundamentals of persistent memory programming: why it is different from current programming methods, and what developers need to keep in mind when programming for persistence Look at persistent memory application development by example using the Persistent Memory Development Kit (PMDK)Design and optimize data structures for persistent memoryStudy how real-world applications are modified to leverage persistent memoryUtilize the tools available for persistent memory programming, application performance profiling, and debugging Who This Book Is For C, C++, Java, and Python developers, but will also be useful to software, cloud, and hardware architects across a broad spectrum of sectors, including cloud service providers, independent software vendors, high performance compute, artificial intelligence, data analytics, big data, etc.

Big Data For Dummies

Big Data For Dummies
Author: Judith S. Hurwitz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1118644174

Find the right big data solution for your business or organization Big data management is one of the major challenges facing business, industry, and not-for-profit organizations. Data sets such as customer transactions for a mega-retailer, weather patterns monitored by meteorologists, or social network activity can quickly outpace the capacity of traditional data management tools. If you need to develop or manage big data solutions, you'll appreciate how these four experts define, explain, and guide you through this new and often confusing concept. You'll learn what it is, why it matters, and how to choose and implement solutions that work. Effectively managing big data is an issue of growing importance to businesses, not-for-profit organizations, government, and IT professionals Authors are experts in information management, big data, and a variety of solutions Explains big data in detail and discusses how to select and implement a solution, security concerns to consider, data storage and presentation issues, analytics, and much more Provides essential information in a no-nonsense, easy-to-understand style that is empowering Big Data For Dummies cuts through the confusion and helps you take charge of big data solutions for your organization.

Loon

Loon
Author: Jack McLean
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2009-05-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0345515358

“Kids like me didn’t go to Vietnam,” writes Jack McLean in his compulsively readable memoir. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, but decided to put college on hold. After graduation in the spring of 1966, faced with the mandatory military draft, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps for a two-year stint. “Vietnam at the time was a country, and not yet a war,” he writes. It didn’t remain that way for long. A year later, after boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, and stateside duty in Barstow, California, the Vietnam War was reaching its peak. McLean, like most available Marines, was retrained at Camp Pendleton, California, and sent to Vietnam as a grunt to serve in an infantry company in the northernmost reaches of South Vietnam. McLean’s story climaxes with the horrific three-day Battle for Landing Zone Loon in June, 1968. Fought on a remote hill in the northwestern corner of South Vietnam, McLean bore witness to the horror of war and was forever changed. He returned home six weeks later to a country largely ambivalent to his service. Written with honesty and insight, Loon is a powerful coming-of-age portrait of a boy who bears witness to some of the most tumultuous events in our history, both in Vietnam and back home.

What Hamlet Said

What Hamlet Said
Author: Terry Mort
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2021-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1493064991

Hollywood in the Thirties: Nazi saboteurs, gangsters running gambling ships, British spies and diplomats, FBI agents, starlets looking for the big break, cheap hustlers on the fringes of the law, local cops—some are friends and some are adversaries, but all are involved somehow with Riley Fitzhugh, a private eye who’s wondering whether the death of an English aristocrat really was an accident.