Spark in Action, second edition is a favorite for the Big Bag Theory gang Spark in Action, second edition, has been out for about a month and was running a…
How I built the perfect data science team
When I assembled my first data science team, the term was barely getting printed in the Harvard Business Review. I had no clue that I was building a team pioneering…
Eight very hot data trends for 2019
Read about eight very hot predictions for data management in 2019, in usages, shapes, governance, and people.
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…
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 gets a Spark
Yesterday, during Ignite 2018, Microsoft announced that they will integrate Apache Spark more tightly with SQL Server 2019. If you missed previous announcements around SQL Server, it now runs on…
Ingestion of data from databases into Apache Spark
Chapter 8 of Spark with Java is out and it covers ingestion, as did chapter 7. However, as chapter 7 was focusing on ingestion from files, chapter 8 focus on…
A Deep-Dive Introduction to Spark for RDBMS Users
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…
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…
Recents Publications
A quick flashback on a few articles I published recently. You Are Not a Machine, So Learn Machine Learning published by Database Trends and Applications on February 21st, 2017. What Are Spark…
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…