Apache Spark Machine Learning Example with Scala

In this Apache Spark Machine Learning example, Spark MLlib will be introduced and Scala source code reviewed.  This post and…

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Apache Spark Advanced Cluster Deploy Troubleshooting

In this Apache Spark example tutorial, we’ll review a few options when your Scala Spark code does not deploy as…

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How to Integrate Custom Data Sources Into Apache Spark

Streaming data is a hot topic these days, and Apache Spark is an excellent framework for streaming. In this blog…

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Real Time Credit Card Fraud Detection with Apache Spark and Event Streaming

In this post we are going to discuss building a real time solution for credit card fraud detection. There are…

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Fast, Scalable, Streaming Applications with MapR Streams, Spark Streaming, and MapR-DB

Many of the systems we want to monitor happen as a stream of events. Examples include event data from web…

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Spark Streaming and Twitter Sentiment Analysis

This blog post is the result of my efforts to show to a coworker how to get the insights he…

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Introducing the ReactiveInflux: non-blocking InfluxDB driver for Scala and Java supporting Apache Spark

I am excited to announce a very first release of ReactiveInflux developed at Pygmalios. InfluxDB missed a non-blocking driver for…

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Spark Data Source API: Extending Our Spark SQL Query Engine

In my last post, Apache Spark as a Distributed SQL Engine, we explained how we could use SQL to query…

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Apache Spark as a Distributed SQL Engine

SQL has been here for awhile and people like it. However, the engines that power SQL have changed with time…

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