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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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