- Apr 27, 2017 — [Writing Data to Amazon S3 from Apache Spark](/2017/04/27/writing-data-to-amazon-s3-from-apache-spark.html)

I recently started working with Apache Spark, Hadoop, HDFS and Hive. I made some jobs in Scala that generated website sitemaps and another that calculated the importance of an a...

- Apr 2, 2017 — [Getting Started with Spark, Hadoop, HDFS and Hive](/2017/04/02/getting-started-with-spark-hadoop-hdfs-hive.html)

Two weeks ago I had zero experience with Spark, Hive, or Hadoop. Two weeks later I was able to reimplement Artsy sitemaps using Spark and even gave a “Getting Started” workshop ...

- Mar 21, 2017 — [What's the simplest way to parse JSON in Scala?](/2017/03/21/whats-the-simplest-way-to-parse-json-in-scala.html)

While XML is a first-class citizen in Scala, there’s no “default” way to parse JSON. So searching StackOverflow and Google yields all kinds of responses that seem unnecessarily ...