by Ian J. Ghent | Oct 24, 2022 | Apache Spark Cafe
My son loves Among Us, the wildly successful computer game released in 2018 by Innersloth, a team of only 3 developers at the time. Personally, I love the story of Innersloth and Among Us, as it shows how a small but passionate team of people can change the world. My...
by Ian J. Ghent | Oct 11, 2022 | Apache Spark Cafe
In the Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing world, a “torture test” is often used to test the limits and capabilities of a 3D printer. There are many different designs out there, but they all aim to capture just how capable is the automated machine. For filament...
by Ian J. Ghent | Sep 28, 2022 | Apache Spark, Apache Spark Cafe, Python
I’m often called upon to provide guidance on why adopting modern analytics is so important. In 2022, all the best features and functionality are in the open source world, especially the market leading Databricks and the PySpark language. Those capabilities are...
by Luigi (Lou) Di Serio | Aug 16, 2022 | Apache Spark, Apache Spark Cafe, Python, SAS
Mental Illness and Obsolete Skills October 2019 was the beginning of a very difficult and dark period for me. In truth, the decline began like a slow-motion train wreck during Christmas of 2018, but the main crisis point and collapse was triggered in October 2019. In...
by Ian J. Ghent | Jul 25, 2022 | Apache Spark Cafe, Cloud Computing, Python, SAS
It seems like everything these days is only for rent. The way we consume movies, music, books, computing, even the features in our cars, have all moved to be subscription model services, not products you buy and own. Pay once, own forever has increasingly become pay...
by Ian J. Ghent | Mar 18, 2022 | Apache Spark, Apache Spark Cafe, Cloud Computing, Python, SAS
What an absurd title! A strange twist on the “working hard or hardly working” cliché, but read on and I promise it will all make sense. Here’s a tale of a court jester and his great invention. Long ago in a vast and complex kingdom, there lived a great king. The...
