CAS Blockchain notes – Introduction to Blockchains

Day 1 Introduction to Blockchains Part I: Introduction and Background Distributed Systems Overlay Networks and Peer-to-peer Systems Security and Trust Part II: Blockchain Basics (1) Principles of Blockchains Blockchain Operations Part III: Blockchain Basics (2) Blockchain Eras and Application Domains …

12 Exam essentials

Selecting Appropriate Storage Technologies Know the four stages of the data lifecycle: ingest, storage, process and analyze, and explore and visualize. Ingestion is the process of bringing application data, streaming data, and batch data into the cloud. The storage stage …

Book notes – Bankless Banking

Author : Svetlana Baranov La banque sans banque Chapitre 1 : De nouveaux comportements clients Evolution des attentes clients : La relation du client avec sa banque est devenue peu fréquente, indirecte et impersonnelle. Le client privilégie la praticité du …

Book notes – Thinking, fast and slow

Introduction This book is about the biases of our intuition. That is, we assume certain things automatically without having thought through them carefully. Kahneman calls those assumptions heuristics 1 (page 7). He spends nearly 500 pages listing example after example …

11 Next Steps

Practice Exam Q1 : Storage of JSON files with occasionally changing schema, for ANSI SQL queries. This is correct because of the requirement to support occasionally (schema) changing JSON files and aggregate ANSI SQL queries: you need to use BigQuery, …

10 Preparing for the GCP exam

Preparing for Data Designing data processing systems System availability is important to pipeline processing, but not data representation, and capacity is important to processing, but not the abstract pipeline or the representation. Think about data engineering and Google Cloud as a platform consisting of components that can be …