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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Spark is a Hadoop Killer
Of course, nobody will tell you I am right. At least officially. But at was what was goal of Hadoop? Perform analytics over a wide range of servers. Of course,…
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…
A Pi for a Champ
Okay, self congratulations are probably not a good sign of humility, but I still wanted to share the news with you, my loyal readers. After being an IBM Champion in…
Finally a Simple Way to Build Business Apps in the Cloud?
Simplicité Software is available in the United States (and the rest of the world), through the IBM Bluemix platform. Simplicité is a development platform designed at developing business apps. What’s…
IBM and Twitter to Announce Partnership
IBM has just announced a strategic partnership with Twitter. What does it mean to the enterprise? Integrate the tonality and the noise of the world in analytics to help businesses…