Azfar AzizSpotted Lanternflies in my codebaseOkay, the title doesn’t make a ton of sense because there is nothing called spotted lanternflies in software development, but humor for a…Oct 14, 2022Oct 14, 2022
Azfar AzizRunning Kafka Locally with DockerIf you are looking for a simple way to run Kafka locally without installing Kafka and Zookeeper and then configure them, you came to the…Aug 21, 2020Aug 21, 2020
Azfar AzizParquet Compression within Apache HiveOn a recent project, I was working on designing and implementing pipelines to ingest data into a Hadoop cluster. The typical target…Mar 15, 20192Mar 15, 20192
Azfar AzizSimple Keras on MacOS TutorialI spent some time walking through a simple tutorial for using the Keras framework. The original tutorial can be found here…Feb 27, 2019Feb 27, 2019
Azfar AzizReading ORC files in HDFSHere are some quick commands to read ORC files that reside in HDFS:Feb 27, 2019Feb 27, 2019
Azfar AzizTuning Apache Spark Jobs — A Starting PointAt a recent client, I had to provide tasked to convert some Hive queries into their Spark equivalents. While there was not significant…Feb 27, 2019Feb 27, 2019
