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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Your Very First Apache Spark Application
Here is your very first Apache Spark program using Java: the equivalent of the Kernighan and Ritchie’s “Hello, World”. You can download it from GitHub: Basically, the key is to […]
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 […]
Throughout my career, I have been talking at more than a hundred and twenty-five international conferences & public speaking engagements in more countries than I have fingers on all continents […]