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Mining Massive Datasets

Posted on April 11, 2015by admin

This article reviews the MOOC course: Mining Massive Datasets.

I would rate this course as 8/10. The content of this course is mainly based on the instrutors’ book Mining Massive Datasets.

The seven week course includes a huge amount of contents related to MapReduce, link analysis, minihash, locality-sensitive hashing, distance measures, frequent itemsets, data stream mining, large graph analysis, recommender systems, dimensionality reduciton, clustering, computational advertising, SVM, decision tress.

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MongoDB Java Examples

Posted on December 6, 2014by admin

Complete Java demo programs to access the MongoDB with MongoDB Java Driver.

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MongoDB for Java Developers

Posted on November 26, 2014by admin

This article reviews the MOOC course: MongoDB for Java Developers.

I would rate this course as 9/10. It is a good entry level MongoDB course for Java Developers.

The seven week course includes topics such as introduction, CRUD, scheme design, performance, aggregation framework, application engineering, case studies and a final exam.

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Learning Spark

Posted on November 20, 2014by admin

This article is a collection of learning Spark materials.

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System Design Interview

Posted on September 20, 2014by admin

This article talks how to prepare system design questions for IT company.

System design is a very broad topic. Even a software engineer with many years of working experience at top IT company may not be an expert on system design. If you want to become an expert, you need to read many books, articles, and solve real large scale system design problems.

This repository only teaches you to handle the system design interview with a systematic approach in a short time. You can dive into each topic if you have time. Of course, welcome to add your thoughts!

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Never Too Late

Posted on March 28, 2014by admin

It’s never too late to begin a new challenge! Check out when the CEOs begin to start their companies.

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Build Your Blog on GitHub with Jekyll

Posted on December 24, 2013by admin

The three stages when you write a blog:

1.You uses an existed blog system such as Blogger or WordPress.

2.Due to limitations of the public blog system, you uses a third party blog system and put it on your own space or on a public cloud, such as GD-cms on GAE.

3.You want to write the blog locally with full control, and also let other website manages the backup.