When starting with Apache Spark, a “lightning-fast cluster computing” engine, it is important to understand how Spark fits into the Hadoop ecosystem. This article provides a… Read More »
Apache Spark Basics – RDDs and Operation Types
Surprising as it sounds, Eclipse doesn’t support sbt out of the box, not even in the Scala IDE. At least I wasn’t able to find… Read More »
Scala SBT project template ready to be imported into Eclipse
Some time ago, I blogged about Gradle support in Eclipse. One feature I failed to spot was an automatic import of Gradle dependencies. The pain point for… Read More »
How to make Eclipse aware of Gradle dependencies
I’ve recently reached out for Cobertura to add test coverage reporting to one of my project. One of the first challenges I’ve face was integrating the… Read More »
JaCoCo beats Cobertura when it comes to Java 8 support
A WordCount app is arguably the most commonly used example of the MapReduce principle – see Hadoop or Spark tutorials. I wanted to do a similar thing in plain… Read More »
Count characters in a piece of text as a one-liner using Java 8 Streaming API
Both Maven and Gradle generate nicely formatted HTML reports. Moreover, Maven’s Surefire plugin outputs all essential information directly to the terminal. That provides an instant access to stack… Read More »
Make the most of the logs when running Gradle tests