Total 18 Posts

Big Data

Basics of Apache Nifi: 2

On our previous video on the basics of Nifi [https://staging-blog-tech.ghost.io/basics-of-apache-nifi], we…

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Nov 15, 2017 1 min read

Malcolm Thirus

Big Data

Data Extrapolation: Learning From Your Big Data

The first step in answering any Big Data-oriented question is to simply obtain the data.…

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Jun 08, 2017 6 min read

Justin Risch

Big Data

MongoDB and Apache Spark - Getting started tutorial

MongoDB and Apache Spark are two popular Big Data technologies. In my previous post [http:…

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May 03, 2017 6 min read

Raphael Brugier

Big Data

Basics of Apache Nifi: 1

In our previous article on Nifi [https://staging-blog-tech.ghost.io/why-nifi-2], we discussed the history,…

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Apr 25, 2017 1 min read

Malcolm Thirus

Big Data

Streaming With Scala: The Nuance of Real-Time Twitter Data

At Ippon Technologies USA, we're lucky enough to have "Coding Dojos"…

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Mar 08, 2017 3 min read

Justin Risch

LifeAtIppon

Pokemon GO: A Big Data Learning Opportunity

Nick Peterson and Justin Risch have begun to study Big Data, Spark, Hadoop, and the…

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Feb 16, 2017 6 min read

Justin Risch

Big Data

Why NiFi?

In this day and age we are living in, it is not a luxury to…

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Jan 26, 2017 4 min read

Doug Mengistu

Big Data

Kafka Streams - Scaling up or down

Kafka Streams is a new component of the Kafka platform. It is a lightweight library…

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Oct 06, 2016 6 min read

Alexis Seigneurin

Big Data

Spark - Calling Scala code from PySpark

In a previous post [https://blog.ippon.tech/spark-kafka-achieving-zero-data-loss/], I demonstrated how to consume a…

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Sep 12, 2016 4 min read

Alexis Seigneurin

Big Data

Apache Spark Datasets

With a Spark 2.0 release imminent [https://databricks.com/blog/2016/05/11/spark-2-0-technical-preview-easier-faster-and-smarter.…

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Jun 15, 2016 4 min read

Malcolm Thirus

Big Data

Spark & Kafka - Achieving zero data-loss

Kafka and Spark Streaming are two technologies that fit well together. Both are distributed systems…

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May 12, 2016 9 min read

Alexis Seigneurin

Big Data

A tour of Databricks Community Edition: a hosted Spark service

With the recent announcement [https://databricks.com/blog/2016/02/17/introducing-databricks-community-edition-apache-spark-for-all.html] of the…

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Apr 13, 2016 6 min read

Raphael Brugier

Apache Spark

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