Rick's status since last meeting

Activity for data streaming course

• Looked into using Zeppelin to use with the course. Installed it and ran it with Spark Streaming.
• Setup VM image to run and development labs. VM has Spark and Kafka.
• Started to port some examples from Java to Python
• Dug into Python Kafka libs as there a few to choose from
• Downloaded and installed Jupyter
• We need to decide if we are going to use Jupyter, Zeppelin or the Databricks notebook
• Wrote up draft student perquisites
• Moving some resources from another project to help port Java to Python
• Moving outline over to markdown need to create sublists (https://gist.github.com/dupuy/1855764)
• Sample slide deck from Kafka course. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cloudurable-kafka-course/1-kafka-introduction.key

Taught a Scala online course this week (unrelated), but something I committed to before this. Next week I will be in Richmond VA teaching Apache Spark. Then I will be on vacation and then I am going to Brazil. I will be working from Brazil for three weeks. Then another vacation in Miami, and then teaching Kafka in McLean VA for a week. I am hoping we get things like tool selection and some specs for what we want in the examples defined before I leave for Brazil so I can start implementing the examples. I created a task list of things to work on w/o those specs.