Big Data & Database Systems Fundamentals Training Course

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at database administrators or developers who wish to use Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB to develop and manage highly responsive and low latency applications.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Provision the necessary Cosmos DB resources to start building databases and applications.
• Scale application performance and storage by utilizing APIs in Cosmos DB. 
• Manage database operations and reduce cost by optimizing Cosmos DB resources.

In this instructor-led, live training in South Africa, participants will learn how to build a Data Vault.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the architecture and design concepts behind Data Vault 2.0, and its interaction with Big Data, NoSQL and AI.
• Use data vaulting techniques to enable auditing, tracing, and inspection of historical data in a data warehouse.
• Develop a consistent and repeatable ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process.
• Build and deploy highly scalable and repeatable warehouses.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at data engineers, data scientists, and programmers who wish to use Spark Streaming features in processing and analyzing real-time data.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to use Spark Streaming to process live data streams for use in databases, filesystems, and live dashboards.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to implement Apache Kafka stream processing without writing code.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Confluent KSQL.
• Set up a stream processing pipeline using only SQL commands (no Java or Python coding).
• Carry out data filtering, transformations, aggregations, joins, windowing, and sessionization entirely in SQL.
• Design and deploy interactive, continuous queries for streaming ETL and real-time analytics.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to learn the principles behind persistent and pure in-memory storage as they step through the creation of a sample in-memory computing project.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Use Ignite for in-memory, on-disk persistence as well as a purely distributed in-memory database.
• Achieve persistence without syncing data back to a relational database.
• Use Ignite to carry out SQL and distributed joins.
• Improve performance by moving data closer to the CPU, using RAM as a storage.
• Spread data sets across a cluster to achieve horizontal scalability.
• Integrate Ignite with RDBMS, NoSQL, Hadoop and machine learning processors.

Apache Beam is an open source, unified programming model for defining and executing parallel data processing pipelines. It's power lies in its ability to run both batch and streaming pipelines, with execution being carried out by one of Beam's supported distributed processing back-ends: Apache Apex, Apache Flink, Apache Spark, and Google Cloud Dataflow. Apache Beam is useful for ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tasks such as moving data between different storage media and data sources, transforming data into a more desirable format, and loading data onto a new system.

In this instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote), participants will learn how to implement the Apache Beam SDKs in a Java or Python application that defines a data processing pipeline for decomposing a big data set into smaller chunks for independent, parallel processing.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Apache Beam.
• Use a single programming model to carry out both batch and stream processing from withing their Java or Python application.
• Execute pipelines across multiple environments.

Format of the Course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

Note

• This course will be available Scala in the future. Please contact us to arrange.

Apache Apex is a YARN-native platform that unifies stream and batch processing. It processes big data-in-motion in a way that is scalable, performant, fault-tolerant, stateful, secure, distributed, and easily operable.

This instructor-led, live training introduces Apache Apex's unified stream processing architecture, and walks participants through the creation of a distributed application using Apex on Hadoop.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand data processing pipeline concepts such as connectors for sources and sinks, common data transformations, etc.
• Build, scale and optimize an Apex application
• Process real-time data streams reliably and with minimum latency
• Use Apex Core and the Apex Malhar library to enable rapid application development
• Use the Apex API to write and re-use existing Java code
• Integrate Apex into other applications as a processing engine
• Tune, test and scale Apex applications

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Apache Storm is a distributed, real-time computation engine used for enabling real-time business intelligence. It does so by enabling applications to reliably process unbounded streams of data (a.k.a. stream processing).

"Storm is for real-time processing what Hadoop is for batch processing!"

In this instructor-led live training, participants will learn how to install and configure Apache Storm, then develop and deploy an Apache Storm application for processing big data in real-time.

Some of the topics included in this training include:

• Apache Storm in the context of Hadoop
• Working with unbounded data
• Continuous computation
• Real-time analytics
• Distributed RPC and ETL processing

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Audience

• Software and ETL developers
• Mainframe professionals
• Data scientists
• Big data analysts
• Hadoop professionals

Format of the course

•     Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

In this instructor-led, live training in South Africa (onsite or remote), participants will learn how to deploy and manage Apache NiFi in a live lab environment.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Apachi NiFi.
• Source, transform and manage data from disparate, distributed data sources, including databases and big data lakes.
• Automate dataflows.
• Enable streaming analytics.
• Apply various approaches for data ingestion.
• Transform Big Data and into business insights.

In this instructor-led, live training in South Africa, participants will learn the fundamentals of flow-based programming as they develop a number of demo extensions, components and processors using Apache NiFi.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand NiFi's architecture and dataflow concepts.
• Develop extensions using NiFi and third-party APIs.
• Custom develop their own Apache Nifi processor.
• Ingest and process real-time data from disparate and uncommon file formats and data sources.

This instructor-led, live training in South Africa (online or onsite) introduces the principles and approaches behind distributed stream and batch data processing, and walks participants through the creation of a real-time, data streaming application in Apache Flink.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up an environment for developing data analysis applications.
• Understand how Apache Flink's graph-processing library (Gelly) works.
• Package, execute, and monitor Flink-based, fault-tolerant, data streaming applications.
• Manage diverse workloads.
• Perform advanced analytics.
• Set up a multi-node Flink cluster.
• Measure and optimize performance.
• Integrate Flink with different Big Data systems.
• Compare Flink capabilities with those of other big data processing frameworks.

In this instructor-led, live training in South Africa, participants will learn how to use Python and Spark together to analyze big data as they work on hands-on exercises.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Learn how to use Spark with Python to analyze Big Data.
• Work on exercises that mimic real world cases.
• Use different tools and techniques for big data analysis using PySpark.

In this instructor-led, live training in South Africa, participants will learn about the technology offerings and implementation approaches for processing graph data. The aim is to identify real-world objects, their characteristics and relationships, then model these relationships and process them as data using a Graph Computing (also known as Graph Analytics) approach. We start with a broad overview and narrow in on specific tools as we step through a series of case studies, hands-on exercises and live deployments.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand how graph data is persisted and traversed.
• Select the best framework for a given task (from graph databases to batch processing frameworks.)
• Implement Hadoop, Spark, GraphX and Pregel to carry out graph computing across many machines in parallel.
• View real-world big data problems in terms of graphs, processes and traversals.

This course is aimed at developers and data scientists who wish to understand and implement AI within their applications. Special focus is given to Data Analysis, Distributed AI and NLP.

MLlib is Spark’s machine learning (ML) library. Its goal is to make practical machine learning scalable and easy. It consists of common learning algorithms and utilities, including classification, regression, clustering, collaborative filtering, dimensionality reduction, as well as lower-level optimization primitives and higher-level pipeline APIs.

It divides into two packages:

• spark.mllib contains the original API built on top of RDDs.

• spark.ml provides higher-level API built on top of DataFrames for constructing ML pipelines.

Audience

This course is directed at engineers and developers seeking to utilize a built in Machine Library for Apache Spark