As you may know, I start writing Apache Spark with Java (now renamed Spark in Action, 2nd edition). Usually, as the book develops, authors share a few excerpt of the book […]
What is Apache Spark, the podcast
A couple of weeks ago, I chatted about Apache Spark with Tobias Macey on data engineering on more specifically Apache Spark. Tobias Macey runs the data engineering podcast, which you can directly […]
Checklist for All Things Open (ATO)
The checklist is updated for ATO 2019! All Things Open 2018 (ATO 2018), a premier open source conference, will open its doors on October 21st 2018 in the Raleigh Convention Center, […]
Lazy is good: understand why it’s good for you that Spark is lazy
This new chapter, chapter 4, of Spark with Java (https://www.manning.com/books/spark-with-java) is not only about celebrating laziness, it also teaches, through examples and experiments, the fundamental differences in building a data […]
Advanced Spark Ingestion
Chapter 9 still covers Spark ingestion (like chapter 7 and chapter 8), but this time, it’s about “anything can become a Spark datasource.” When I was working for Zaloni, we […]
File Ingestion in Apache Spark
In a typical Big Data analytics scenario, you will probably be tempted to ingest files. You know, those pesky CSV files where the comma is sometimes a semicolon or a […]