by Jesse Anderson | May 12, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
The NFL ran a commercial a few years back. It featured various professional athletes from the NFL doing things you wouldn’t otherwise believe. One showed a quarterback shooting trap with his football instead of a shotgun. I’ve shot trap and it’s hard... by Jesse Anderson | May 5, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering |
Person who chases two rabbits catches neither. – Confucius This applies really to learning. Learning two new and different technologies at the same time makes you catch neither. I’ve seen so many students trying to learn Big Data and a new programming... by Jesse Anderson | Apr 29, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering |
Let’s just say that Google Cloud’s SSH instructions aren’t the greatest. Here are the steps to SSH into your instance. It also assumes that you’ve installed the gcloud program. These instructions are for MacOSX and Linux. We start off by... by Jesse Anderson | Apr 21, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Magnum Opus |
I am proud to announce that my latest screencast on Apache Impala called Creating Big Data Solutions with Impala was released on O’Reilly. This caps off a long relationship with Impala that started well before it was released publicly. My relationship with... by Jesse Anderson | Apr 19, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard |
Unit testing, Apache Spark, and Java are three things you’ll rarely see together. And yes, all three are possible and work well together. Update: updated to Spark Testing Base 0.6.0. Why Unit Test With Spark? I’m not an advocate of TDD (Test-Driven... by Jesse Anderson | Apr 11, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering |
I spoke at Strata+Hadoop World two weeks on Kafka. There were three main themes from the conference that I came away with: real-time Big Data is the (present) future, we should be using intermediary libraries instead of programming directly to an API, and applied AI...
