Like Spark, Flink is fairly overwhelming to get started with. This is mostly because of installations and run-time configurations. After a bunch of searching around and I was able to put together a decent starter SBT config for Flink. I used Intellij to work with Flink because of it’s complex API, the type hinting and other niceties come in pretty handy.
Read MoreEarlier this week I ordered a Logitech Pop. I had a small use case where to pop would work great. We have a small lamp with a Phillips Hue bulb that we use when our daughter wakes up in the night. Typically, we use HomeKit to turn the light on and off, but HomeKit is so spotty as to be impossible to use and using the Hue app is cumbersome in a frantic run to get a crying baby. I learned about the Pop and figured I could have an extra button next to the light switch that we could just tap on our way in and out, easy enough.
Read MoreLivy provides an interesting way to use Spark as a RESTful service. In my opinion, this is not an ideal way to interact with Spark, however. There is just a tad too much overhead of language interoperability to make it worth it. For starters, sending strings of Scala code over the wire doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence.
Read MoreFor the last year or so I’ve been blogging regularly about the Apache Spark platform. During that time, Spark has grown from something that people in data science and engineering have used to something that is almost ubiquitous. I’ve enjoyed working with the platform professionally, and even on a number of personal projects.
Read MoreI’ve been into this home automation thing for some time now. Any device on the market, I’ve most likely tried it already and there is an equally good chance that there is one functioning in my house. Most of the home automation products available for the mass market are still pretty user-hostile and ever so expensive.
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