REST Anti-Patterns – A lot of people (or companies) pretend to have a REST API. Read this article and you will understand that not all the API’s that implement GET and POST methods are REST APIs. It is an old article (from 2008), but still valid.
Protocol Buffer Basics: Python – This tutorial provides a basic Python programmer’s introduction to working with protocol buffers.
And finally the IBM Big Data architecture articles. In this series you will find about big data classification and architecture, learn if a big data solution is right for your organization, the architectural layers of a big data solution, understand atomic and composite patterns for big data solutions, and in the last one (for the moment) there are presented information about how to apply a solution pattern to your big data problem and choose the products to implement it.
Happy reading!