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…
HDP 2.6 is Out: Spark 2, Hive 2, and Zeppelin 0.7 are GA
Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) v2.6 has been released and you can download the platform from their website. The sandbox is not yet available in v2.6. New Versions of Key Components…
Recents Publications
A quick flashback on a few articles I published recently. You Are Not a Machine, So Learn Machine Learning published by Database Trends and Applications on February 21st, 2017. What Are Spark…
The Netherlands Welcomes Trump, What About the Rest of Europe?
Following President Trump’s election, some European countries have started reacted through their humorists in a very original way, mixing apprehension, gratitude, and (a little bit of) fear. It all started…
What are Spark Checkpoints on Dataframes?
Let’s understand what can checkpoints do for your Spark dataframes and go through a Java example on how we can use them. Checkpoint on Dataframe In v2.1.0, Apache Spark introduced…
Apache Spark Event in the Triangle
A quick post to share the next Spark event that we will run in the NC Triangle (RTP – Chapel Hill, Durham, Raleigh). This event will be held on December…
The WoW I Went To
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…