Earlier in the summer, I start a series of articles for IBM developerWorks. Those articles focus on Apache Spark from a RDBMS user perspective, of course, the database of choice […]
Apache Spark 2.2 is Out
The Best Spark in Town Yesterday, Apache Spark v2.2.0 has been released. Excitement started a few months ago, reaching a “summit” during Spark Summit where a lot of the features […]
Spark Boosts IBM Event Store
IBM just announced Event Store, a hybrid datastore to store events. The originality? Events can be streamed in and it is based on Apache Spark. IBM claims to be able […]
A new Informix Book is Out for MacOS and Java
Why a book on Informix? Informix has been a passion for almost 20 years. Very often, a younger version of myself would say: “I don’t like databases, that’s why I […]
The WoW I Went To
Right before Halloween, from October 24th to October 27th, I went to WoW. Of course, when I told that to my kids they assumed I was going to play World […]
Zaloni’s Mica on the Radar
Mica is data preparation tool, which can be used by anyone… It makes it a self-service data preparation software. Data scientists and engineers can use it for discovery, curation, and […]
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, […]
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 […]
A Pi for a Champ
Okay, self congratulations are probably not a good sign of humility, but I still wanted to share the news with you, my loyal readers. After being an IBM Champion in […]
Finally a Simple Way to Build Business Apps in the Cloud?
Simplicité Software is available in the United States (and the rest of the world), through the IBM Bluemix platform. Simplicité is a development platform designed at developing business apps. What’s […]