A review of the Amazon Echo Show
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Back in July, I presented the work I’ve been doing creating an open source version of Amazon Athena at Open West. You can find the slides at the end of this post as well as a link to the GitHub repo. The GitHub repo has all of the configurations you need and a walk through video of how to use it. This blog post serves as a written document of my journey and some of the gotchas I experienced along the way.
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One of the most important things to learn about Spark is that it's not magic. The framework still adheres to the rules of computer science. What I mean by this is that you can still do plenty of unoptimized workflows and see poor performance. Understanding how Spark works under the hood, from even a cursory level, can help in writing better Spark applications.
Read MoreAt the beginning of the year, I decided I wanted to speak at technical conferences and meetups. This decision was based on how much more I learn when I am tasked with explaining things to other people. It’s the same reason I like to blog and the same reason I liked to tutor when I was in college
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Choosing between Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis can be a difficult task. While some argue that they are inherently different systems, I think most of the differences are overstated. This post is highlights the differences I found most notable in the two platforms in aims to help those who are choosing between the two.
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