So many of the tools and projects we talk about and use every day are prefaced by 6 letters, A P A C H E… What does it mean to be an Apache project? What does the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) do for software? Are there other options? Let us tell you about the ASF!
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00:00 Recent events
- Dave:
- How we caught the circle line rogue train with data
- Black Friday 2016: Mobile vs Desktop User Behaviour
- AI Machine Attempts to Understand Comic Books … and Fails
- Jhon:
- Paypal From Big Data to Fast Data in Four Weeks or How Reactive Programming is Changing the World
- Part 1 and Reactive programming manifesto
- Part 2: How that change was followed by adding a spark micro bath (streaming) to the workflow
- Paypal And they are not only using spark, here is one talking about how they use storm for another real-time workflow.
- Managing Spark Partitions with Coalesce and Repartition
A short write up on how spark does partitioning internally and some ways of improving the partition scheme - Principa The Top Predictive Analytics Pitfalls to avoid
- ODPi Publishes First Operations Specification To Provide Developers Consistency Across Application Management Tools
As John talked about in our anniversary episode, the ODPI 2.0 released
25:30 Apache Software Foundation
- The ASF
- Overview
- Process
- The Project List
- http://apache.org/index.html#projects-list
- Other Open Source Licence Options
01:02:08 End
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