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DevOps
Replacing Docker Desktop with hyperkit + minikube
MacOS is a Unix but it isn’t a Linux so, unfortunately, if/when we need to use linux-y things like docker…
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Software Development
Where is Apache Spark heading?
I watched (COVID19-era version of “attended”) the latest spark Summit and in one of the keynotes Reynold Xin from Databricks,…
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Software Development
Big data isn’t – well, almost
Back in ancient history (2004) Google’s Jeff Dean & Sanjay Ghemawat presented their innovative idea for dealing with huge data…
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Software Development
Spark, Parquet and S3 – It’s complicated
(A version of this post was originally posted in AppsFlyer’s blog. Also special thanks to Morri Feldman and Michael Spector…
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Software Development
Hadoop and the OpenDataPlatform
Pivotal, IBM and Hortonworks announced today the “Open Data Platform” (ODP) – an attempt to standardize Hadoop. This move seems…
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Software Development
Is there a future for Map/Reduce?
Google’s Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat filed the patent request and published the map/reduce paper 10 year ago (2004). According to WikiPedia Doug Cutting…
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Software Development
Services, Microservices, Nanoservices – oh my!
Apparently there’s this new distributed architecture thing called microservices out and about – so last week I went ahead and…
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Enterprise Java
ReSQL?
The NoSQL moniker that was coined circa 2009 marked a move from the “traditional” relational model. There were quite a…
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Software Development
Fallacies of massively distributed computing
In the last few years, we see the advent of highly distributed systems. Systems that have clusters with lots of…
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