Episode 30 - Apache Software Foundation

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
  - https://blog.data.gov.sg/how-we-caught-the-circle-line-rogue-train-with-data-79405c86ab6a#.mhqs1mikx
- Black Friday 2016: Mobile vs Desktop User Behaviour
  - http://appinstitute.com/black-friday-2016-mobile-vs-desktop-sales/
- 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
  - http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/
  - https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2016/11/08/from-big-data-to-fast-data-in-four-weeks-or-how-reactive-programming-is-changing-the-world-part-1/
- Part 2: How that change was followed by adding a spark micro bath (streaming) to the workflow
  - https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2016/11/18/from-big-data-to-fast-data-in-four-weeks-or-how-reactive-programming-is-changing-the-world-part-2/
- Paypal And they are not only using spark, here is one talking about how they use storm for another real-time workflow.
  - https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2016/11/15/carrier-payments-big-data-pipeline-using-apache-storm/
- 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
  - https://medium.com/@mrpowers/managing-spark-partitions-with-coalesce-and-repartition-4050c57ad5c4#.s2l3yxemt
- Principa The Top Predictive Analytics Pitfalls to avoid
  - http://insights.principa.co.za/the-top-predictive-analytics-pitfalls-to-avoid?utm_content=buffera2780&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
- 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
  - https://www.odpi.org/announcements/2016/11/14/odpi-publishes-first-operations-specification-to-provide-developers-consistency-across-application-management-tools

25:30 Apache Software Foundation

The ASF
- http://apache.org/
Overview
- http://apache.org/foundation/
Process
- http://apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html
The Project List
- http://apache.org/index.html#projects-list
Other Open Source Licence Options
- http://choosealicense.com/
- https://opensource.org/licenses

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