Oracle Coherence Quickstart : by Ahmet Fuat Sungur

 4/5
A real quick introduction into all features of Coherence v3.7 in-memory grid. Useful for developer and architect audiences with all backgrounds who may or maynot have worked with caching technologies.
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"Java Performance - Charlie Hunt Video Training"

 5/5

Pranaam!! A valuable sneak-peak, a concise presentation on Java 1.7 performance tuning, with all important GC tuning options. The course is good to reinforce Oracle Performance Tuning training or for professional performance tuners to get a refresher. Each Garbage Collection type is explained with examples from verbose GC logs. The explanation is more on what are GCs, the what to performance tune is specific to context and is rightly not a black & white answer for the audience.
The G1 garbage introduced since later versions of 1.6 is interesting and I'd like to more about this.

The sections are divided around 3 topics. Something tells me that part of this training is about to arrive with details on G1 garbage collector or improvements in concurrency in existing GC types.

• JVM Overview
• Collecting Performance Statistics
• Understand HotSpot JVM GC Logs

Regards
Sudeep Namboodiri 

"Learning Oracle Database 11g by Lewis Cunnigham" - 2012

This is a good breezy introduction to Oracle 11g database for anyone who wants to get familiar with whats/hows of databases concepts. The presenter has touched through all important aspects, so it was very useful for me. I've intentionally skipped 3 chapters, first "Database security", "Very Large Databases" and "PL/SQL" , considering the priorities. This is a good stepping stone for Oracle Database performance tuning concepts.

Hadoop Fundamentals LiveLessons

Hadoop Fundamentals LiveLessons (Video Training) by Doug Eadline

Rating 3/5
Pranaam! Found this as a good rudimentary introduction to Hadoop architecture, hdfs and MapReduce. Essentials on HBase, Ambari, Zookeeper or other fundamental aspects are left out. Total video length is 5 hrs. Found the pace to be too slow and feel more could have been covered for impatient starters like me. Presentaton on first half of chapters are good. Lot of information is abstracted. Recommend to look at case studies in BigData to have more information.

Regards
Sudeep

"Patterns in Java : A Catalog of Reusable Design Patterns Illustrated" by Mark Grand

Pranaam! Working on "Patterns in Java : A Catalog of Reusable Design Patterns Illustrated" by Mark Grand this week. This is a "Volume 1" edition, I've got and is an old print. The notations used previous to UML 2.0, but I liked the explanation. Revising this under a tight timeline, since this needs to go back to shelf. Writing a running log here:

• Overview of UML
• This covers notations for 3 basic UML diagrams viz. Class Diagrams, Collaboration Diagrams and StateChart Diagrams

• Software Lifecycle

"Data Structures and the Java Collections Framework, Third Edition" by William J Collins

"Data Structures and the Java Collections Framework, Third Edition" by William J Collins[2011 print]

In tune with multi-threading, I'm beginning a new thread on Java Collections, in an attempt to solidify core Java essential concepts.

Liked "Agile Engineering Practices by Neal Ford"

 
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The "Agile Engineering Practices by Neal Ford" is a good primer into agile methodology and kickstarts you right into it. Its a marathon 7 hr video, spread across chapters and laid out very well. I liked this workshop as it complements with other reading material on Agile methodologies.