Agile Adoption: Decreasing Time to Market
Instead of focusing on entire methods such as Scrum and XP, we will talk about the practices that are the building blocks of these methods such as iterations and automated...
Getting Started with Lean Software Development
Lean Software Development is an outgrowth of the larger Lean movement that includes areas such as manufacturing, supply chain management, product development, and...
Getting Started with Apache Hadoop
This is a complement of Dzone Refcardz #43 and #103, which provides introductions to high performance computational scalability and high-volume data handling techniques,...
Database Partitioning with MySQL: Improving Performance, Availability, and Manageability
MySQL, the world’s most popular open-source database management system, encompasses key attributes such as high performance, manageability, scalability, availability...
Big Data Machine Learning: Patterns for Predictive Analytics
We will start by discussing two phases. First is the training phase where you will learn a model from training data. Next is the predicting phase where you will use...
Apache HBase: The NoSQL Database for Hadoop and Big Data
Use HBase when you need random, real-time read/write access to your Big Data. The goal of the HBase project is to host very large tables — billions of rows multiplied...