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 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…
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…
Chapel Hill, we *Don’t* Have a Problem…
Successful first deployment of Apache Spark on a production server. Yep… I could add the line on my resume. Right now, we have set 24 cores, 72 GB of memory…
The Apache Ecosystem for Enterprise Applications
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) offers a wide range of tools, libraries, frameworks, and data stores for building enterprise applications. The purpose of this list is to keep track of…
Five Good Reasons to Name your Fields Correctly
People will start to believe that I am starting a series on agriculture (see my previous post: Name your fields, it’s easier when you’re gonna harvest). They would be partially…
Dear Informix Enthusiast
Spanish and French translations are available under the English article. Dear Informix enthusiast, The election for directors of IIUG is closing soon (June 11th), we wanted to send you a…
Talk in Zagreb on NoSQL: Understanding why you need NoSQL
After my talk in Miami, I will speak about NoSQL, and specifically “understanding why you need NoSQL” in Zagreb, Croatia during the Adria IUG event on May 22nd 2014. In…
Installing PostgreSQL on a Mac
In this walkthrough tutorial, I will install PostgreSQL on a Mac. Sometimes I may sound old school, but I insist on calling “things” by their name so PostgreSQL is PostgreSQL, not Postgre, not Postgres,…