Sometimes companies will start writing code or designing a solution before I train there. This is usually a bad idea. It really shows the difference between Big Data and small data. Making a mistake with small data isn’t costly and doesn’t take long to...
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Digg Google+ reddit Hacker News Delicious Working with complex and multi-module Maven projects can be a handful. These are a few tips to make that easier. I’m going to use Apache Beam as an example of a multi-module Maven project. The...
In a previous post, I showed how to use Beam’s Regex class to split up a string. In this post, I’m going to going to show some other features of the Regex class. The Regex class gives you a distributed way to work with strings. I tried to make the...
There’s this friendly game in Big Data frameworks. It’s what’s the fewest lines of code it takes to do WordCount. I’m a committer on Apache Beam and most of my time is dedicated to making things easier for developers to use Beam. I also help...
We’re coming on that time of year when many people make their goals for the next year. Before you do that, reflect on how you did this year. If you accomplished a goal, how did you do it? If you didn’t accomplish a goal, what happened? Many people wrote in...
Unit testing your Kafka code is incredibly important. It’s transporting your most important data. This is especially true for your Consumers. They are the end point for using the data. There are often many different Consumers using the data. You’ll want to...
