Apache Spark – How to create a powerful streaming application
After setting up Apache Kafka, the next step in our Retail Business Intelligence Platform project was to set up Spark, another widely used software solution from the Apache workshop. Apache Spark, the real spark necessary to ignite our project and turn it into a true stream processing arrangement, is probably the most famous streaming engine […]
Data streaming and how to influence business decisions
In data streaming, data flows in continuously. That means that data is processed instantly and in real or near real-time. This is an advantage over batch processing where it’s required for data to be downloaded in batches first. It’s an obvious benefit for decision-making. Here, decision-makers get data at the time of the event and […]