Apache Spark basics

    In Big Data containers era, there is no way, that you will avoid working with cluster-computing frameworks, like Hadoop or Spark. At some point, I had to choose between those two, and as Apache spark seems to be more flexible and faster, I decided to look closer into it. Following …

Protocol Buffers

“…Protocol buffers are Google’s language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from …