Powering Interactive Data Analysis with Google BigQuery

Mar 29, 2017 by Madalina Botez in Announcements

Enjoy the following series of interviews with the speakers, top-notch software crafters from across Europe, joining I T.A.K.E Unconference, Bucharest, 11-12 May. Discover the lessons learned and what drives them to challenge the known path in their field.

Marton Kodok is a Senior Software Architect REEA, who led the implementation of complex and distributed systems. At #itakeunconf 2017, he will share more about Powering Interactive Data Analysis with Google BigQuery.

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#1. Please share with us 5 things you did that helped you grow & become the professional you are today

It all started when I was posting answers for the Stackoverflow community and the reputation started to grow over 100k. I realized that being a professional is a constant effort and never ending learning of new cool stuff. To be up to speed you need to constantly shift to emerging technologies. You see the merit when your answer voted and uncounted millions of people also learn.

We need to be open-minded and have a mentor around us to grow. As you might not have a mentor close to you in person, you can leverage online communities such as Stackoverflow, a community that helps you grow. It helped me.

Then when you take it offline and be supportive & active in local communities, participate in Startup Weekends, community projects you believe in – you will be able to work on fun stuff. Also being part of an IT company such as REEA, it helped me become a professional by all the great startup projects I had to work on, the colleagues, the clients, and also the conference participations.

In 2016, I was nominated and accepted into the Google Developers Experts program. Having my exemplary work recognized by the greatest company in the IT industry and pointing me as an expert and outstanding professional, it gives me new goals to achieve even more.

#2. What challenges will the participants find solutions to during your session at I T.A.K.E Unconference 2017?

Nowadays there are dozens of options to choose how you architect your project for next level of data analytics. We will cover how Google BigQuery helps to solve the petabyte scale data warehousing, and ability to write complex queries for your dashboards.

#3. Recommend for the participants 3 sources you find inspiration from and would help them better understand you

My inspiration inbox is Feedly, there I consume all sorts of content I really enjoy reading: High Scalability, Percona Blogs, Codrops, Medium, SIMB.

Want to join Marton and ~300 software crafters from around Europe?

Show your coding skills while competing with peers like you

May 14, 2015

Do you know how to test systems? Can you point coding issues? Are you open to learning from other people? And, best of all, can you safely clean up existing code and improve its design? These are all core developer skills nowadays, and you’ll greatly benefit from mastering them. Here’s just one more opportunity to do so during I T.A.K.E. Unconference – The Programming Contest. We think you’re going to enjoy it.

Take a set of challenges that will put your skills to the test, overcome them and get the most points to win the contest. Oh, we almost forgot: those getting the most points win gadgets like a drone or an iPad. They are still small rewards compared to the learning, but we’re sure they help :).

How the Programming Contest works?

Well, this is simple. We try to automate the process as much as possible. For the moment the instructions are as simple as:

Register for THE contest on May 28
Solve the challenges
Submit the solutions until May 29, 2 pm

Really cool: you can use ANY of the following programming languages: Java, C#, PHP, C++.

Who will review your code?

The Jury is built of Software Craftsman Fellows from Europe – names soon to be announced. They will grade each challenge you took. There will be just a few challenges, and taking all of them may lead you to the highest score. So the more you solve the closer to win.

Compete with passionate coders at I T.A.K.E. Unconference

Join the crew, compete with developers like you, gain recognition and take the drone home, offered by Mozaic Works. Or the iPad offered by Accenture.

Don’t miss the Programming Contest as well as many other hands-on sessions at I T.A.K.E. Unconference happening in Bucharest on 28-29 May 2015.

I T.A.K.E. Unconference 2018 Slides & Videos

Jun 15, 2018

You can check out this year’s videos here, on our Youtube Channel.

DAY 1

Alexandre Bauduin – Automation, Aviation Authorities and Mission Critical Software

Bart Szulc – Test Coverage 2.0

Lemi Orhan – Git Anti-Patterns

Johan Peeters & Michael Boeynaems – REST Identity and Access Management

Armagan Amcalar

Alastair Smith – Check That: How a List Can Save Your Life

Philipp Krenn – NoSQL’s Fight for Security

DAY 2

Alexandru Bolboaca

The Journey to Master Code Design

Bart Szulc

Finding Bugs Before Implementation – part I
Finding Bugs Before Implementation – part II

Daniel Carral

What is Good Code? Evaluating Code Quality – slides
What is Good Code? Evaluating Code Quality – Github repository

David Voelkel

Fake It Outside-In TDD Workshop – slides
Fake It Outside-In TDD Workshop – illustrating screencasts

Alin Pandichi – Incremental Feature Development with Web Components

Henk Boelman

Unleash Some AI into the Wild – slides
Unleash Some AI into the Wild – Tendocare.ai video

Ansible, AWS & Elasticsearch

Apr 15, 2016

Enjoy the following series of interviews with the speakers, top-notch software crafters from across Europe, joining I T.A.K.E Unconference, Bucharest, 19-20 May. Discover the lessons learned and what drives them to challenge the known path in their field.

In today’s news is Phillipp Krenn, developer advocate @Elastic, who spreads the love and knowledge of full-text search, analytics, and real-time data. During his sessions, the attendees will cover the basics of Ansible by setting up a local environment in Vagrant and explore how Elasticsearch stores and interacts with JSON documents.

#1. SHARE TOP 5 THINGS YOU DID THAT HELPED YOU GROW & BECOME THE PROFESSIONAL YOU ARE TODAY

Never stop learning: Keep up to date & don’t ignore either tried and tested solutions of the past
Participate at local events to learn and get to know other people in your field — meetup.com is a great starting point
Build stuff: Find interesting problems to apply and extend your skills
Attend at least 1 conference per year to broaden your horizon
Your dream job or project is just one interview away; there are way more opportunities than you would think at first, just give it a try

#2. What challenges will the participants find solutions to during your sessions @ I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016?

In my Ansible & AWS workshop we will learn how to automate your infrastructure, so you have a reproducible and documented system.
In the Elasticsearch talk we will try to overcome the object-relational impedence mismatch and make developmemt more productive and fun.

#3. What else would you like to share with participants?

The best place to learn more about my experience or ask any question is definitely Twitter – @xeraa

Want to join Phillipp and many more software crafters from around Europe?

Join I T.A.K.E Unconference 2016!