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!
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
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602973/ai-machine-attempts-to-understand-comic-books-and-fails/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05118 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.05118v1.pdf
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
01:02:08 End
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