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…
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…
IDS and XML
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)…
XQuery 1.0 is a W3C Recommendation!
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…
Writing XML
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…