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Alvin Henrick

01 August 2018
Analytics

How to index geospatial data with Apache Spark Solr Connector and query with Solr Client

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This post will describe how can we ingest the geospatial data into Apache Solr for search and query. The pipeline is built with Apache Spark and Apache Spark Solr connector. The purpose of this project is to ingest and index

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16 May 2017
Analytics

Apache Spark Analytical Window Functions

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It’s been a while since I wrote a posts here is one interesting one which will help you to do some cool stuff with Spark and Windowing functions.I would also like to thank and appreciate Suresh my colleague for helping me

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10 July 2016
Analytics

Apache Spark User Defined Functions

Alvin Henrick 1 Comment 33091 Views

I have been working with Apache Spark for a while now and would like to share some UDF tips and tricks I have learned over the past year. Below is the sample data (i.e. people.json) used  to demonstrate example of UDF

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26 November 2015
Analytics

Query Nested JSON via Spark SQL

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It’s been a while since I wrote a blog so here you go. I have been researching with Apache Spark currently and had to query complex nested JSON data set, encountered some challenges and ended up learning currently the best

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26 January 2015
Cloud

Docker backup and restore volume container

Alvin Henrick 2 Comments 29448 Views

This is the continuation from my previous post where I had explained how to run spring boot app inside the docker container as daemon which is using MongoDB as storage and the [/data/db] volume was mounted as docker container volume.

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16 January 2015
Cloud

Spring Boot App deployed with Docker and Data Only Container Pattern Explained.

Alvin Henrick 2 Comments 21498 Views

The more I use and learn about Docker and the more I feel like I can’t live without it.This blog is about Docker amazing feature Volume Containers.I  wanted to write the Spring Boot app and deploy it to the Docker

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18 August 2014
Analytics

Apache Storm and Kafka Cluster with Docker

Alvin Henrick 18 Comments 63890 Views

This post is all about real time analytic on large data sets. I am sure every one has heard about Apache Kafka (Distributed publish subscribe messaging broker) and Apache Storm (Distributed real time computation system.) and if you were disappointed

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16 July 2014
Big Data

Hadoop (YARN) Multinode Cluster with Docker

Alvin Henrick 15 Comments 45229 Views

It’s been a while since I have been planning to write a blog and share the knowledge .My wife has been trying to convince me from a very long time that I should write the tech blog because she thinks

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Recent Posts

  • How to index geospatial data with Apache Spark Solr Connector and query with Solr Client August 1, 2018
  • Apache Spark Analytical Window Functions May 16, 2017
  • Apache Spark User Defined Functions July 10, 2016
  • Query Nested JSON via Spark SQL November 26, 2015
  • Docker backup and restore volume container January 26, 2015

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