Freeze!! Continuous Delivery not working!
This is the first part of a story, a story about how important it is to have a reliable release and deployment process.... Read more.
Employee turnover: the good, the bad, and the ugly
It is a common truism in Human Resources that labor turnover is generally bad news for a given company and that management must take precautionary measures to r... Read more.
Spark and Kerberos: a safe story
Amongst all the Big Data technology madness, security seems to be an afterthought at best. When one talks about Big Data technologies and security, they are usu... Read more.
Creating a Recommender System (Part II)
After the resounding success of the first article on recommender systems, Álvaro Santos is back with some further insight into creating a recommender system. C... Read more.
Ideas from Big Data Spain 2016
On the 17th and 18th of November, I attended the Big Data Spain conference. It was my first time attending this type of events, and it was an excellent opportun... Read more.
Stratio Crossdata vs Presto
Nowadays, there are a lot of Big Data query engines available. Some companies struggle to choose which one to use. Benchmarks exist, but results can be contradi... Read more.
Creating a Recommender System (Part I)
This two-article series explains how to design and implement a hybrid recommender system that works just like the ones used by Amazon or Ebay.... Read more.
The Developer’s Guide to Scala Implicit Values (Part II)
Conway's Game of Life: You could hardly imagine a simpler set of rules to code on your computer and you wouldn't expect any interesting result at all, but... ... Read more.
Stratio @ #MesosCon Europe
MesosCon Europe was held in Amsterdam from August 31 to September 2 and a small representation of Stratio’s crew was over there.... Read more.
The Developer’s Guide to Scala Implicit Values (Part I)
Implicit parameters and conversions are powerful tools in Scala increasingly used to develop concise, versatile tools such as DSLs, APIs, libraries… When use... Read more.