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…
Ways to Run your Apps with Apache Spark
When you start an application, you need to think about where it’s going to run, and also how it’s going to run. Basically, the way I use Spark is in…
Spark Java Recipes
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…