Kscope18: It's a Wrap!
As announced few weeks back I represented Rittman Mead at ODTUG's Kscope18 hosted in the magnificent Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort. It's always hard to be »
Rittman Mead at OUG Norway 2018
This week I am very pleased to represent Rittman Mead by presenting at the Oracle User Group Norway Spring Seminar 2018 delivering two sessions about Oracle »
Taking KSQL for a Spin Using Real-time Device Data
Taking KSQL for a Spin Using Real-time Device Data Evaluating KSQL has been high on my to-do list ever since it was released back in August. »
KSQL: Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka
Few weeks back, while I was enjoying my holidays in the south of Italy, I started receiving notifications about an imminent announcement by Confluent. Reading the »
Game of Thrones S07 Last Episode: The Summary
Watch the Episode First! It's a friendly suggestion... The final #GoT episode was transmitted last Sunday, now two years waiting for the next season... How can »
The Week After: Game of Thrones S07 E06 Tweets and Press Reviews Analysis
Another week is gone, another "Game of Thrones" episode watched, only one left until the end of the 7th series. The "incident" in Spain, with the »
How was Game Of Thrones S07 E05? Tweet Analysis with Kafka, BigQuery and Tableau
I don't trust statistics and personally believe that at least 74% of them are wrong.... but I bet nearly 100% of people with any interest in »
Analyzing Wimbledon Twitter Feeds in Real Time with Kafka, Presto and Oracle DVD v3
Last week there was Wimbledon, if you are a fan of Federer, Nadal or Djokovic then it was one of the events not to be missed. »
Data Processing and Enrichment in Spark Streaming with Python and Kafka
In my previous blog post I introduced Spark Streaming and how it can be used to process 'unbounded' datasets. The example I did was a very »
ETL Offload with Spark and Amazon EMR - Part 5 - Summary
This is the final article in a series documenting an exercise that we undertook for a client recently. Currently running an Oracle-based datawarehouse platform, the client »