Managing isolated Environments with PySpark
With the sustained success of the Spark data processing platform even data scientists with a strong focus on the Python ecosystem can no longer ignore it. Fortunately [...]
Is React Native an Alternative to Native Development?
tl;dr it depends on your goals; react native can definitely be a tool to simplify your development for multiple platforms, or even just for one Platform if you don [...]
Visuelle Regressionstests im Web: Eine praktikable Alternative zu DOM-basierten E2E-Tests?
Visuelle Regressionstests (Visual-Regression-Testing, VRT) sollen es dem Software-Entwickler erleichtern, im Web-Frontend-Bereich sichere Aussagen zur Qualität der en [...]
Progressive Web Apps on iOS!
In recent years many new web standards like the Service Worker and Web Notifications evolved, which ultimately enabled Progressive Web Apps. Since then, Progressive W [...]
Application of Differential Privacy and Randomized Response in Big Data
Differential Privacy is a topic of growing interest in the world of Big Data. It is currently being deployed by tech giants like Google and Apple to gain knowledge ab [...]
Actions on Google Tutorial: Apps für Google Assistant selbst schreiben
Voice Assistants wie Google Home und Amazons Alexa unterstützen uns zu Hause nicht mehr nur bei Standardaufgaben wie der Wetterabfrage oder dem Stellen eines Timers. [...]
Behold, the External Address Highlighter for Google Inbox!
Hi there! Just wanted to quickly let you know, that we published a new web-extension 🎉 It’s called External Address Highlighter (github) and does just that (in [...]
Progressive Web Apps vs. WebAPKs
Imagine you could build a sophisticated application that would run on all your devices, without the need to build multiple versions for each platform (e.g., iOS, Andr [...]
Serverless Architecture with AWS Lambda
Ever since Amazon released AWS Lambda in 2014, the term Serverless Architecture has made its way to popularity amongst the tech community. The concept had already bee [...]
Writing a Hive UDF for lookups
In today’s blog I am going to take a look at a fairly mundane and unspectacular use of a Hive UDF (user-defined function), that of performing lookups against re [...]
Redis Cluster and Partitioning
In my past articles we learned a lot about Redis basics, high availability, CLI and performance. Today we take a look at Redis as a distributed keyspace for huge data [...]
Data Science in Production: Packaging, Versioning and Continuous Integration
A common pattern in most data science projects I participated in is that it’s all fun and games until someone wants to put it into production. From that point in time [...]