Microsoft Power BI Desktop can connect to many data sources, Oracle Database is one of the most popular ones. The missed steps on installation of Oracle client and ambiguous specification of ServerName/ServiceName in the Power BI’s official document make it hard to follow. …

In previous post I described how to create a Linux Virtual Machine(VM) and connect to it through WindSCP on Windows 10 under a company proxy. However, it is not a best practice from security perspective. One of the best practices is to create a VM with private IP that comes…

To learn Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine, the first thing you want to try might be to create a VM and connect to it. If you follow the steps described in Microsoft’s official quickstart document, you most likely fail to connect to it, especially when you are under a company proxy…

AI Platform Notebooks is a managed service that provides an integration of JupyterLab, Git, and optimized data science libraries and frameworks. From it, you can get access to almost all ML frameworks, such as TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, etc. It is an excellent place for machine learning developers to experiment, develop…

As a power user of Google Cloud Platform, you definately need to use gcloud, gsutil and bq commands to work with GCP, which means you need to install Google Cloud SDK on your local computer. You can install the Cloud SDK through many options, including versioned archives, installer, apt-get/yum for…

Kubeflow is an open-source project which aims to make running ML workloads on Kubernetes simple, portable and scalable. However, setting up a Kubeflow cluster in a shared VPC on Google Cloud Platform can not be done through the web console yet. …

Google Cloud Dataflow is a fully managed platform running Apache Beam for unified stream and batch data processing services. With its fully managed approach on resource provisioning and horizontal autoscaling, you have access to virtually unlimited capacity and optimized price-to-performance to solve your data pipeline processing challenges. Shared Virtual Private…

This post describes the process to install Hortontworks HDP 3.1.0 on a cluster of three VMWare virtual machines. …