Category: System administration

Cloudera Administration Handbook – How to become an effective Big Data administrator of large Hadoop clusters – #bookreview

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    Cloudera Administration Handbook  Rohit Menon Packt Publishing – Kindle, paperback   The explosive growth and use of Big Data in business, government, science and other arenas has fueled a strong demand for new Hadoop administrators. The administrators’ key duty is to set up and maintain Hadoop clusters that help process and analyze massive amounts of … Continue reading Cloudera Administration Handbook – How to become an effective Big Data administrator of large Hadoop clusters – #bookreview

Making Sense of NoSQL – A balanced, well-written overview – #bigdata #bookreview

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Making Sense of NoSQL A Guide for Managers and the Rest of Us Dan McCreary and Ann Kelly (Manning, paperback) This is NOT a how-to guide for learning to use NoSQL software and build NoSQL databases. It is a meaty, well-structured overview aimed primarily at “technical managers, [software] architects, and developers.” However, it also is … Continue reading Making Sense of NoSQL – A balanced, well-written overview – #bigdata #bookreview

The Practice of Network Security Monitoring – You’re compromised, so deal with it. #security #bookreview

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The Practice of Network Security Monitoring Understanding Incident Detection and Response Richard Bejtlich (No Starch Press – paperback, Kindle) Security expert Richard Bejtlich’s focus in his new book is not on “the planning and defense phases of the security cycle.” Instead, he emphasizes how to handle “systems that are already compromised or that are on … Continue reading The Practice of Network Security Monitoring – You’re compromised, so deal with it. #security #bookreview

Absolute OpenBSD: Unix for the Practical Paranoid, 2nd Edition – A good & long-overdue update – #bookreview

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Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition Unix for the Practical Paranoid Michael W. Lucas (No Starch Press – Kindle, paperback) This updated new edition likely will be hailed — and rightly so — as a major event by many dedicated users of OpenBSD. After all, the first edition of Michael W. Lucas’ book was published a full … Continue reading Absolute OpenBSD: Unix for the Practical Paranoid, 2nd Edition – A good & long-overdue update – #bookreview

Hadoop is hot! Three new how-to books for riding the Big Data elephant – #programming #bookreview

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In the world of Big Data, Hadoop has become the hard-charging elephant in the room. Its big-name users now span the alphabet and include such notables as Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Google, the New York Times, and Yahoo. Not bad for software named after a child’s toy elephant. Computer systems that run Hadoop can store, process, … Continue reading Hadoop is hot! Three new how-to books for riding the Big Data elephant – #programming #bookreview

Getting Started with Mule Cloud Connect – To help sort out the chaos of Internet services – #bookreview

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Getting Started with Mule Cloud Connect Ryan Carter (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) In a digital world increasingly cluttered with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms, Open APIs, and social networks, complexity quickly can get out of hand. “It all starts,” Ryan Carter writes in his new book, “with a simple API that publishes somebody’s status to Facebook, sends a Tweet, or updates a … Continue reading Getting Started with Mule Cloud Connect – To help sort out the chaos of Internet services – #bookreview

All for Search and Search for All: 3 New Books for Putting Search to Work – #bookreview

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Seek and ye shall find. That’s the theory behind the still-debated benefits of digging through Big Data to uncover new, overlooked, or forgotten paths to greater profits and greater understanding. Big Data, however, is here to stay (and get bigger). And search is what we do to find and extract useful nuggets and diamonds and … Continue reading All for Search and Search for All: 3 New Books for Putting Search to Work – #bookreview

CompTIA Security+ Exam SY0-301 Rapid Review – For Security+ certification – #bookreview

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CompTIA Security+ Exam SY0-301 Rapid Review Michael Gregg (Microsoft Press – paperback, Kindle) IT security professionals know the importance of certifications to their careers and their continuing credibility with employers or potential clients. The CompTIA Security+ Exam SY0-301 Rapid Review is a handy and helpful guide for IT security specialists who are preparing for Exam SY0-301, to earn … Continue reading CompTIA Security+ Exam SY0-301 Rapid Review – For Security+ certification – #bookreview

Juniper MX Series – A comprehensive guide for network engineers – #bookreview #juniper #networking

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Juniper MX Series Douglas Richard Hanks Jr., and Harry Reynolds (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) This comprehensive, well-written handbook is aimed directly at network engineers who want to know more about the feature-rich Juniper MX Series of routers. Actually, “handbook” is a bit of a misnomer. It takes two hands to comfortably handle this hefty, comprehensive, 864-page guide. … Continue reading Juniper MX Series – A comprehensive guide for network engineers – #bookreview #juniper #networking

Deploying Rails – A good how-to guide covering choices, tools & best practices – #programming #bookreview

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Deploying Rails: Automate, Deploy, Scale, Maintain, and Sleep at Night Anthony Burns and Tom Copeland (Pragmatic Bookshelf, paperback) Maybe you have been studying Ruby and Rails and now feel ready for the next big step. Perhaps you are already on a job where a Rails application needs to be deployed and running on a server … Continue reading Deploying Rails – A good how-to guide covering choices, tools & best practices – #programming #bookreview