Databricks cross-workspace administration with Powershell and WPF

For quite some time now, I have worked in Data Analytics platforms in the cloud, where Databricks played a major…

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Big Data Ingestion: Flume, Kafka and NiFi

Preliminaries When building Big Data pipelines, we need to think on how to ingest the Volume, Variety and Velocity of…

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Streaming Big Data: Storm, Spark and Samza

There are a number of distributed computation systems that can process Big Data in real time or near-real time. This…

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Lambda Architecture for Big Data

An increasing number of systems are being built to handle the Volume, Velocity and Variety of Big Data, and hopefully help gain new…

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Android Tips: On/Off Toggle

When we need to give to users of our apps the ability to switch on/off a given feature, we automatically…

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NoSQL on Android

There are various NoSQL solutions for mobile platforms such as the iOS and Android. Here, we will look at Couchbase…

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Storing Objects in Android

One alternative to using SQLite on Android is to store Java objects in SharedPreferences. Here, we’ll look at two different…

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Android Activity Recognition

Activity Recognition gives our Android device the ability to detect a number of our physical activities like walking, riding a…

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Bluetooth Data Transfer with Android

To develop an Android application making use of data transfers via Bluetooth (BT), one would logically start at the Android…

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