Right before Halloween, from October 24th to October 27th, I went to WoW. Of course, when I told that to my kids they assumed I was going to play World […]
OVH in Virginia
This is really hot off the telescripter. Leading hosting company OVH is continuing its development in the United States and they will come to Virginia. OVH announced today its decision […]
Ben Sharma on Data Lake
Zaloni’s CEO Ben Sharma is speaking about managing data lakes. What has happened is IT department starts by installing Hadoop and jumps into Big Data. Not a lot of companies […]
Zaloni’s Mica on the Radar
Mica is data preparation tool, which can be used by anyone… It makes it a self-service data preparation software. Data scientists and engineers can use it for discovery, curation, and […]
Let’s Start Slack’ing
To help foster the Apache Spark community in the (Research) Triangle region (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill in North Carolina), with some friends, we decided to create a Slack team […]
Spark Recipes Updated
This week has seen the release of Apache Spark v2.0.0. As with every major releases, you can expect some changes. My Java recipes for Apache Spark have been affected, but […]
The new Apache Spark is out (2.0.0)
Unlike the new iPhone, the release of Apache Spark v2.0.0 did not gather 1,000s of people in a room, but it is a very important event in the small world of […]
Ways to Run your Apps with Apache Spark
When you start an application, you need to think about where it’s going to run, and also how it’s going to run. Basically, the way I use Spark is in […]
Managing Java UDF with Apache Spark
UDF stands for User Defined Functions. With those, you can easily extend Apache Spark with your own routines and business logic. Let’s see how we can build them and deploy […]
Spark Java Recipes
Here are a few quick recipes to solve some common issues with Apache Spark. All examples are based on Java 8 (although I do not use consciously any of the […]