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 […]

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 […]

It’s been a while I did not blog, although this is not a blog ;-). Well, I just wanted to let you know that the new IDS (v11 or Cheetah) […]

This morning, I got a mail from one of the numerous vendors who thinks he has the right to send me plenty of mails. Well, anyway it contained… Here is […]

When I started playing with XML, I was an early adopter. It was interesting, intrigant. Now, everybody knows what XML is and other needs arise, such as “how the heck […]

Having knowledge of how you database is structured is not easy. It is often available through complex tools accessible to DBA (Database Administrator), not even developers. Management may not have […]