Kafka, Spark and Avro - Part 3 of 3, Producing and consuming Avro messages

This post is the third and last post in a series in which we learn…

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Apr 06, 2016 6 min read

Alexis Seigneurin

Big Data

Testing strategy for Spark Streaming - Part 2 of 2

In a previous post [http://blog.ippon.tech/testing-strategy-apache-spark-jobs/], we’ve seen why it’s…

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Mar 30, 2016 6 min read

Raphael Brugier

Apache Spark

Kafka, Spark and Avro - Part 2 of 3, Consuming Kafka messages with Spark

This post is the second post in a series in which we will learn how…

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Mar 22, 2016 4 min read

Alexis Seigneurin

Big Data

JHipster 3.0: Introducing Microservices

[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ippontech/blog-usa/master/images/2016/03/Screen-Shot-2016-03-02-at-4.10.22-PM.png] The…

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Mar 17, 2016 6 min read

Kenneth Hegeland

Front-End

Kafka, Spark and Avro - Part 1 of 3, Kafka 101

This post is the first in a series of posts in which we will learn…

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Mar 15, 2016 7 min read

Alexis Seigneurin

Big Data

Testing strategy for Apache Spark jobs - Part 1 of 2

Like any other application, Apache Spark jobs deserve good testing practices and coverage. Indeed, the…

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Mar 11, 2016 6 min read

Raphael Brugier

Apache Spark

Why is an Address NOT a String?

Applying the concepts of Data Meaningfulness and Usefulness. One example given in the article [Data…

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Mar 10, 2016 5 min read

Justin Risch

Data

Data Meaningfulness and Usability: Does your data mean what it says?

There are two metrics you can use to measure the quality of your database; how…

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Mar 08, 2016 2 min read

Ahmed MSOUBER

When to use Cassandra, MongoDB, HBase, Accumulo and MySQL

There are core basics that every organization needs that leads to a basic standard implementation…

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Mar 08, 2016 8 min read

Jeannine Stark

Back-End

The Ippon Formula: A Recipe for Innovation

If you were to boil down Ippon to its raw ingredients, and sifted for what…

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Mar 03, 2016 3 min read

Justin Risch

Record Linkage, a real use case with Spark ML

I participated to a project for a leading insurance company where I implemented a Record…

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Feb 22, 2016 10 min read

Alexis Seigneurin

My First Week at Ippon

My initial phone interview with Ippon went well. I spoke with Preston, who asked me…

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Feb 18, 2016 5 min read

Derek Zuk

Using Apache Spark to do Basic Statistics

In a previousblog [http://blog.ippon.tech/how-to-get-started-with-spark-hdfs-and-cassandra/], examples were given about the basic API…

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Feb 17, 2016 9 min read

Jeannine Stark

Cloud

Grid Drop -- A Simple Drag and Drop Game Using AngularJS

In this article, we will learn about AngularJS directives and the use of HTML5 drag…

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Feb 17, 2016 10 min read

Kenneth Hegeland

Vagrant Manager

Following Kate’s article [https://blog.ippon.tech/vagrant-and-ansible-for-new-developer-on-boarding/] about Vagrant, I would like to…

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Feb 08, 2016 1 min read

Valentin Carmignac

Vagrant