November 15th Blog Roundup

• November 15, 2019
• Nicco Marcus

Hello again!

We're back with our weekly link roundup! 
Check out the items below to grab some great reading about the best in tech.

• Spark vs. Hadoop MapReduce: Here's a comparison article for these two platforms.
• Ring-Fencing APIs: Modernizing Legacy Databases: Learn how businesses can work to modernize their legacy databases by making the information within them accessible via an API.
• PHP Advanced Exceptions Tutorial: In this blog post, it covers how to avoid these situations though exception handling, specifically on software exceptions and how to address them using Hypertext Preprocessor, or PHP.
• Configuring Python StatsD Client: Check out this overview and tutorial on StatsD. 
• Who said ETL has to be hard?: Here's a great overview on ETL, and the most pressing challenges faced by business that use ETL. 
• Getting started with AWS CloudWatch: Take a pass at this comprehensive overview of AWS CloudWatch's main 4 features. 
• SQL MONEY Data Type:  Should you use MONEY or DECIMAL to store money in SQL Server?   Get the straight scoop here.

We hope you find these useful!