PinnedPankaj GuptaSorting and Parquethttps://parquet.apache.org/ is a columnar data format that has gained a lot of popularity and for good reason. The biggest advantage is…Jul 20, 20183Jul 20, 20183
Pankaj GuptaStone Boy 2.0Albert was a cheery little boy. Son of a tribal family in the ancient Mauritius. He was inquisitive and loved to roam around, much to the…Aug 7, 2021Aug 7, 2021
Pankaj GuptaLess is More — SQL for BigDataIn technology, as in most other fields of life, less is often better than more. In this article I want to highlight many advantages of SQL…Feb 3, 20191Feb 3, 20191
Pankaj GuptaWhat Tech Should I Get?Software engineering is a rapidly evolving domain. It literally is an evolutionary process: a number of frameworks typically arise to solve…Aug 1, 2018Aug 1, 2018
Pankaj GuptaGolang feels like coming home16 years ago when I first learnt C I fell in love with programming. I recently started playing with Go and got the same feeling again after…Dec 8, 2016Dec 8, 2016
Pankaj GuptaCreating Seq is Slow in ScalaCreating a small sequence in scala can be horribly slow… 7–8x slow. May not be in the critical path of your application but I think one…Dec 4, 2016Dec 4, 2016