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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]