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What I’m Learning Report #1 (Docker Deep Dive, K8s, & More)

October 3, 2019 by Thomas Henson Leave a Comment

One question I get a lot of on Big Data Big Questions is “Thomas what are you learning”. Honestly not as much as a Is should. It’s true I believe the key to being successful in any part of life is to continually learn.

Looking to change careers from Web Developer to DevOps?

Do you want to be a better partner or spouse?

Trouble with public speaking?

All the answer to the above questions start with learn and end with consistency. If you make it a habit to learn and are consistent with it there isn’t anything you can’t accomplish. Alright enough with selling you on learning! I wanted to share with you what I’m learning and to help motivate myself TO KEEP LEARNING. The way I plan to accomplish this is with monthly learning reports. 

30 Minutes of Learning Everydayish…

For along time I’ve advocated for the idea of taking 30 minutes everyday to learn something new. I’ll go through time periods where I’m hitting that everyday then sometimes where I fall behind. While it’s only a target and nothing to beat myself up about, I find it a useful technique when learning any concept. The way I do my 30 minutes of learning is to set a timer on my phone for 30 minutes and focus only on that topic for 30 minutes. Recently, in order to track this habit I’ve been using the Super Habit App. Below you can see how I’ve done over the last month. Honestly not my best work but let’s see how it improves overtime.

What I'm Learning 30 Minutes

Pluralsight

Mainly my 30 Minutes of Learning comes from Pluralsight courses. Not only am I an Author but I’m also a student. Pluralsight has been a part of my personal learning path long before I was an Author. Back when I was a fresh new Web developer I used Pluralsight to learn C# and ASP.NET frameworks. Of course, I also dove into the world of JavaScript, JQuery, and other JS frameworks. Now days I still learn with Pluralsight but the content is more Data Engineering and IT OPs focused.

Docker Big Picture Course

Docker seems to be taking over the world. In fact, contributions and adoption of Docker and Kubernetes has outpaced Hadoop exponentially. So many new applications and services offer a containerized version. In the Hadoop 3.0 release multiple features were to add support for containers. All this container talk has pushed me to learn this amazing Platform-as-a-Services for OS virtualization. My guide on this journey is the great Nigel Poulton. Checkout my notes from the Docker Big Picture Course:

  • Kubernetes originated out of Google (shocking I know)
  • Kubernetes is Greek for helmsman or Captain
  • Web Playground for K8s
  • Web Playground for Docker
  • Docker Engine – daemon –> containerd –> OCI
  • Docker has both community and enterprise versions
  • Kubernetes = K8s

Docker Deep Dive Course

After working my way through the Docker Big Picture Course I decided to stay in the Docker world by watching the Docker Deep Dive Course. I loved this course where I was able to get hands on with Docker and learn a good bit beyond the basics. Here are a few notes I jotted down throughout this course:

  • Docker Commands like
    • List – docker ps
    • Pull Image – docker image pull
    • Build Image – docker image build
    • Run Image – docker exec
  • Building Docker images is as easy as writing a YAML file
  • YAML = Yet Another Markup Language
  • Docker networking with bridge drive on Linux or NAT driver on Windows
  • Stacks and Services – code –> container –> services
  • Docker Universal Control Plane (UCP) is installed on top of Docker Engine
  • Docker Trusted Registry can be setup for storing all Docker Images.

What I'm Learning

Data Related Podcast & Blogs

Data Engineer learning doesn’t only take place in courses. I also wanted to track some of the Podcast and articles I consumed throughout the month. The great thing about Podcast is you can listen to them while commuting, working out, house chores, or just about anywhere. Here are a few Podcast and Articles I’ve consumed over the past month.

  • Conversational AI Best Practices with Cathy Pearl and Jessica Dene Earley-Cha – GCP podcast that digs into the aspects of conversational AI. I loved this podcast to explore where conversational AI is going and where to get started with NLP in GCP. Actually gave me some ideas for my October learning goals.
  • Microservices.io – Uh I can’t even begin to summarize how much content is on this site. If you are looking to learn more around Microservices (which you should!!) then bookmark this site and read this content over time.
  • Doctor AI – Dell Tech (full disclosure: #iworkforDell)  podcast diving into different topics around AI. In this episode host Jessica explores the possibilities of AI augmentation in the medical field. One the areas I’ve spent a good bit of research in and spoke about. Earlier this year I spoke with a group of Medical Doctors and Researchers at NYU around advances in AI.
  • Exploring AWS Lake Formation – AWS podcast with guest from around the AWS world. A lot of great content on this on this podcast. Listened to this particularly episode while walking my son so my attention wasn’t what it should have been. Mostly I remember that Data Lake Formation is an AWS services that helps with cataloging and label data to support multiple services (MySQL, Redshift, S3).

On To Next Month

Thanks for supporting this new series and I’m excited to see how it matures over time. Also would love if I got more consistent with my learning as well.  If you have ideas for things I should be learning or would like to share what you are learning put it in the comments below. Right now my thoughts are to wrap up the Kubernetes Deep Dive course then move on to Natural Language Processing (NLP). I’ve got ideas for some really cool projects in NLP so it should be fun.

Filed Under: Article Tagged With: AI, AWS, Docker, GCP, K8s, Kubernetes, Learning

Top 10 Favorite Post of 2015

January 4, 2016 by Thomas Henson Leave a Comment

So long 2015

2015 is done. I love the New Year because it’s always a good time to look back at what you have accomplished. 2015 presented me with new challenges and opportunities. As I was planning out my goals for next year, I wanted to look back at what I’ve done. Here are a few of the things I accomplished in 2015:

Blog Posts – 26 (New Record!!)

Books Read – 21

States Visited – 7 (WA, IL, TN, MS, LA, FL, CA)

YouTube Videos – 2 (Learn Pig Latin in Under 2 Hours & T-shirt Method)

Pluralsight Course – 1 (Pig Latin Getting Started)

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This year was very busy and I’ve published more content in 2015 then any other year. Since this year has been a record year, I thought I should put together a list of my favorite 10 post. Hopefully these post are your favorites as well…..

Top 10 Favorite Post from 2015

  1. Pig Latin Getting Started Course – My favorite post because it is about my first Pluralsight course Pig Latin Getting Started. If you are interested in learning a higher level language in the Hadoop ecosystem then this course is made for you. This course allows developers with only basic SQL knowledge write MapReduce jobs without having to learn Java.
  2. Learn to Process Data with Apache Pig Latin – Number 2 on this list is about WHY YOU SHOULD LEARN PIG. Just so you know I think you should learn Pig Latin! I’m pretty biased when it comes to Pig but in this post I back my reasoning up with facts.
  3. Complete Agile Podcast – One of the most commented on post of 2015. I compiled a list of Agile Podcast from around the web. The goal was to be a resource for developers looking for Agile specific Podcast. If you see any Podcast I’ve missed let me know.
  4. Example Pig Latin Script – Another post about Pig Latin but this one focuses on the overall structure of Pig Latin script. The example script compares a Pig Latin script to SQL script line by line.
  5. Pig Latin Data Types – An in depth look at the different data types in Pig and how to cast those data types. Data types in Pig are simple so take 5 minutes to learn them.
  6. 4 Steps to Increasing Team Productivity by 400% – After finishing both Jeff Sutherland’s book and my Scrum Master certification I was stoked to write about team productivity. Team productivity can be boosted exponentially when using Scrum. Don’t believe me check the post to find out more.
  7. Apache Pig Eval Functions Series – Where else are you going to find example scripts for all the Pig Eval Functions? This is my first series post and I’m still adding more functions. If you looking for a 200 level discussion of the Pig Latin language start here.
  8. Apache Pig Latin Tutorial – Deeper look into my Pig Latin Getting Started course. This post actually includes 10 minutes of my course free.
  9. Execute Pig Script from Command Line – Most of my tutorials use Pig from the Hue Pig interface or Grunt Shell but sometimes you just need to run the script from the command line. Walk through this tutorial and run your script in under 2 minutes.
  10. How Big Data Impacts Holiday Shopping – While out shopping I started looking around at all the ways Big Data was affecting my Christmas shopping. It’s another example of how popular Big Data is in every aspect of our lives. In retail Big Data really is king.

And there you have it – my first Top 10 Favorite Blog Post ever. Hope everyone enjoys the look back at the year. 2016 is going to rock. I’ve got a plan to double the content from 2016 and incorporate more videos. Let know if you have anything you want me to cover in 2016.

Filed Under: Article Tagged With: Agile, Apache Pig, Big Data, Pig Latin, Top 10

Guest Blog Post

September 12, 2013 by Thomas Henson

Blog business concept, text and icon. Orange button or key on white keyboardHere are some links to other pages where I have blog post or articles. I will continue to update this page:

When I worked at the University of North Alabama we had blog for the Office of Web Communications, here are the 3 post I had during my tenor:

  • Anti-spam Widget for Cascade Server – We used Cascade Server as our Content Management System (CMS). The Knowledge base for Cascade Server had great documentation for creating web forms but no documentation on implementing SPAM protection. We created a simple solution using reCaptcha.
  • WordPress Multisite Plugin Review – In May of 2012 we implemented a University wide blogging site using WordPress Multisite www.buildingthepride.com. Of course every WordPress sites needs plugins right? But what plugins did we use for our multisite implementation of WordPress.
  • Cascade Server User Conference 2012 – Awesome post about attending Cascade Server user conference.

 

Filed Under: Article Tagged With: cascade server, guest blog, Higher ED, tech blog post

Whitehouse Posting on Github

August 28, 2012 by Thomas Henson Leave a Comment

Breaking News

2-3 days ago the Whitehouse expanded its social media network into social coding Github. What does this mean for the political landscape in November? Read on to find out.


About the App

The popular We the People petition at petitions.whitehouse.gov is an cloud version of a paper petition. Users are able to create an account then create a petition for others to sign. It has been a very popular and now the White House has published the code online for others to use under the GNU General Public License. The overall premsie behind the app is a cloud based petition will allow users to get more signatures.


Tech Specs

Drupal 7

PHP 5

Required Mongo DB but they want to move to a MySQL database soon.

Located at https://github.com/whitehouse/petition

 


 

Thoughts

Really wish this was a WordPress plugin, the most popular CMS on the web. The good news is since this is a public repostiroy on Github someone will probally create a WordPress plugin for it. As far as the timing I think it would have been better had it been released this summer.Most political and community awareness pages are already finalized. For example our local election is tomorrow, kind of hard pressed to get this implemented before then but this APP could be helpful for the future.


November Prediction

Someone will create this APP for WordPress. You heard it here first.

 

Filed Under: Article, Development, Video Tagged With: drupal, github, php, social coding, whitehouse

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