Wondering how to go about getting started with Apache Spark?  Look no further. To round out our series on Apache Spark for newbies, we will apply what we learned from last week’s post, Intro to…

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There has been a lot of buzz around Apache Spark recently including some big companies committing significant resources to the open source platform.  While some technologies are just a flash in the frying pan, Spark seems…

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You may be asking, “Do we really need another testing framework?” In this video presentation Spencer says “Yes!” and will share some reasons why the Spock testing framework is gaining in popularity compared to other…

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After last month’s introduction to Search Concepts and Tools, in this video presentation Jason will give us his perspective on coming up to speed on Solr from a new user’s point of view. Slides A…

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Who hasn’t forgotten the old days in school of staring at Java’s main method signature, wondering why you need so much code for the measly task of having your computer say “Hello World”? Then you…

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Beyond the buzzword Everyone understands what Hadoop is and why it matters….right!?!?  🙂 In the rare case that you aren’t super hero familiar with Hadoop, this Hadoop for newbies video presentation goes beyond the buzzword…

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This talk, by our very own Steve Davids, provides an overview of basic search concepts and tools from the most popular open source search library, Apache Lucene.  Steve is an active Apache Solr contributor and an…

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