Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
Apache Spark is a general purpose cluster computing platform which extends map-reduce to support multiple computation types including but not limited to stream processing and interactive queries. Last week IBM's Moktar Kandil presented at the Tampa Hadoop and Tampa Data Science Group Joint meetup on the topic of exploring Apache Spark. Apache Spark for Azure HD-Insight Following are…
Application security focused company Arxan has created some pretty neat info-graphics summarizing the State of Application Security. They have reached out to me for a review; I found the infographic along with corresponding detailed reports which outlines the summary, methodology, findings, and recommendations, quite effective yet precis overview of the state of appsec. Forty-one percent of mobile…
Sam just wrote a precis on Why Facial Recognition Is the Next Big Thing in Marketing which outlines how brands are / can use the facial recognition to increase engagement, and therefore sales. From a machine learning and data science perspective, building algorithms which understand what one's face is really saying i.e. performing emotion analysis to find insight into purchasing patterns…
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) helps students build STEM skills, confidence, teamwork, public speaking skills, and make connections with professionals. I am glad to be part of this effort as a volunteer Coach and mentor for both the First Lego League Jr, and First Lego League Championship. Had to work quite hard to…
A friend recently asked about a good book on data science, with python. I have been trying to go through the current landscape of books for a course I am teaching this summer, so here is my recommendation. There are several other good ones out there, but this one quite fits the newbie bill. So…
I recently spoke at the Tampa Analytics Group, a Microsoft recognized Data Science group ran by Joe Blankenship on the topic of Data Science with Azure. The talk focused on Azure offerings, with a demo on how to write a map-redcuce job in Azure using C#. Following are the slides. Data science with Windows Azure - A…
Last Saturday I attended Global Azure Bootcamp which was held in Microsoft Tampa office, hosted by Blain Barton of Microsoft. With presentations from Dan Patrick of Opsigility, Alex Melching and Blain himself, Azure bootcamp was a great primer/refresher to the Azure offerings. I especially enjoyed the Post-Build-conference offerings, announcements and demos pertaining to the new Azure-AWS parity. Great stuff!…
My undergrad class from Dept. Of Computer Science, UBIT consisted of an amazing group of people. We have kept life long friendships and connections across continents. One of my colleagues just successfully defended his dissertation so I decided to compile a list of all the PhDs from my class. Here it is, the best class of DCS!…
Abstract The term "Microservice Architecture" has sprung up over the last few years to describe a 'particular' way of designing software applications. Like every new industry FADSynonym for SOA, BPEL, WADL, etc, including but not limited to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microservices architecture has no precise definition, and it follows the “it depends” school of ivory tower software design. Following this prevalent and ubiquitous architectural style, we introduce a novel architectural design pattern called (pico) p-Services Architecture. Our architectural pattern addresses the prevelant characteristics around organizations such as maintaining and increasing technical debt, forming silos to decrease business capability, not leveraging automated deployment, ensuring lack of intelligence in the endpoints, and centralizedReviewer 2 thinks bottle neck sounds too pejoritive. control of languages and data. Following are the tenets of the pico services architecture to help redirect focus away from the minor problems in enterprise distributed computing such as compliance, security, scalability, and fragmentation.