My Big Data Journey

by Jesse Anderson | Jun 22, 2016 | Blog, Business, Data Engineering, Data Engineering is hard | 0 comments

Everyone’s Big Data journey starts somewhere. We’re often given stories of outright mastery, but I want to tell you how I got started with Big Data. Each of these stories about mastery forget or omit their humble beginnings. This is my story from my humble...

We Live, Eat, and Breathe This Stuff

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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