NCDevCon is a yearly event in the Triangle, targeted for developers of all breeds, from front-end to back-end. Its origin starts in the ol’ days of Adobe ColdFusion, and thus […]
Loading CSV in Spark
Loading CSV in Apache Spark is a standard feature since version 2.0, previously you required a free plugin (provided by Databricks). Although it starts with a basic value proposition: Comma […]
A New Dimension for Apache Spark Clusters
Summer has been busy and it’s now behind us. I won’t annoy you with all the details of what happened but I wanted to come back on a project I […]
A Deep-Dive Introduction to Spark for RDBMS Users
Earlier in the summer, I start a series of articles for IBM developerWorks. Those articles focus on Apache Spark from a RDBMS user perspective, of course, the database of choice […]
Getting Ready for This Pint of Guinness
Next month, I’ll be heading to Dublin, the capital of Ireland. I have been to Ireland quite a few times – I was 3 the first time. However this time, […]
Apache Spark 2.2 is Out
The Best Spark in Town Yesterday, Apache Spark v2.2.0 has been released. Excitement started a few months ago, reaching a “summit” during Spark Summit where a lot of the features […]
Meet Cactar, the Ancient Mongolian Warlord of Data Quality
A Little History On August 18, 1227, the well-known Mongolian emperor Genghis Khan passed. Despite numerous criticisms, based on rumors of genocide and brutality, he united Mongolia. One of his […]
Spark Boosts IBM Event Store
IBM just announced Event Store, a hybrid datastore to store events. The originality? Events can be streamed in and it is based on Apache Spark. IBM claims to be able […]
The Key to Machine Learning is Prepping the Right Data
Earlier this month, I was in San Francisco, CA, to attend Spark Summit 2017. I gave a talk on the phase before you can apply Machine Learning on data, using […]
A new Informix Book is Out for MacOS and Java
Why a book on Informix? Informix has been a passion for almost 20 years. Very often, a younger version of myself would say: “I don’t like databases, that’s why I […]