Blogs

When some people talk about a Data Lake (or Hadoop, or even just Big Data), they go on to say that we can store all our data, unstructured, forever, and be able to analyse it at any time (maybe even in real-time!

Right now I’m drinking my 5th homebrewed beer.

I’ve been investigating using Apache Kafka with Apache Beam and set up a small prototype environment using Docker Compose.

For the last year I’ve been using Wercker to deploy this site each time I make a change (normally a new post) and push it to BitBucket.

Hello world Unit tests Accepting POST Calling a downstream API Testing with a mock Github response Summary A while ago I wrote about using Finagle for an API endpoint.

I recently spent a couple of nights in Berlin.

The benefits of using Docker for your development environments are well known by now.

A partition is a group of your data.

Last weekend I ran the Cambridge Boundary Run half marathon for the first time.

Looking for a change and a challenge, I joined the Broxbourne Rowing Clubs Learn to Row course last October.