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by Jesse Anderson | May 12, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard | 0 comments

The NFL ran a commercial a few years back. It featured various professional athletes from the NFL doing things you wouldn’t otherwise believe. One showed a quarterback shooting trap with his football instead of a shotgun. I’ve shot trap and it’s hard...

Unit Testing Spark with Java

by Jesse Anderson | Apr 19, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard | 13 comments

Unit testing, Apache Spark, and Java are three things you’ll rarely see together. And yes, all three are possible and work well together. Update: updated to Spark Testing Base 0.6.0. Why Unit Test With Spark? I’m not an advocate of TDD (Test-Driven...

Why You’re Not Getting a Data Engineering Job

by Jesse Anderson | Mar 3, 2016 | Blog, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard | 0 comments

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Digg Google+ reddit Hacker News Delicious “Pass” he said while on the phone. I looked up from the podium where I was teaching. “Pass” he said again into the phone. Very curious, I waited until he finished with his...
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