Monthly Archives: May 2018

Notes on my “Becoming a Hadoop Specialist” session

Posted on May 29, 2018 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

Today I talked about how I became a Hadoop specialist/data engineer at the ITNEXT Data Engineering & DevOps meetup. Here are a couple of links that were or not were in my presentation: The (what I call) “hype-o-meter” site from … Continue reading →

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Making a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram from Gaia DR2 data with Elasticsearch

Posted on May 13, 2018 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

Elasticsearch was one of the open source products on my list to try out, ever since I got rejected for a couple of assignments as a consultant last year. Apparently it’s a popular product. But why do you need a … Continue reading →

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Codemotion Amsterdam 2018, day two

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

Back on the ferry to the north of Amsterdam I went, back for day two of Codemotion Amsterdam 2018. Keynote Daniel Gebler from PicNic told us about what they are doing today to bring groceries home for people. I’ve seen … Continue reading →

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Codemotion Amsterdam 2018, day one

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

Last Friday I almost felt I had to explain a colleague that I don’t always win raffles and lotteries. Because yep, I won another ticket. Again via the Roaring Elephant podcast. It’s pretty worthwhile listening to them, is all I’m … Continue reading →

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