Olivier Girardot's Ramblings

The boring stuff is the point Everyone's prophesying the downfall of SaaS.

When I was a teenager in the 90s, a friend of mine had a side-gig making cracks and key-generators for games and software.

it’s 9AM, you’re ready to upgrade your favorite Linux distribution and packages to their latest versions, the process goes smoothly and after a reboot your machine is now up-to-date.

The generative AI trend is arguably one of the biggest paradigm shifts of the last decades for the tech industry —even though the field has seen its share of upheaval recently: the disappearance of OOP as the default mental model, the rise of distributed…

I've been coding since 2006, during this time I've seen multiple trends & technologies emerge, rise and fall - nowadays the elephant in the room is the bad press around OOP languages the likes of Java, C#, C++.

With the introduction in Spark 1.4 of Window operations, you can finally port pretty much any relevant piece of Pandas' Dataframe computation to Apache Spark parallel computation framework using Spark SQL's Dataframe.

With the Apache Spark 1.3 release the Dataframe API for Spark SQL got introduced, for those of you who missed the big announcements, I'd recommend to read the article : Introducing Dataframes in Spark for Large Scale Data Science from the Databricks blog.

Apache Spark's default serialization relies on Java with the default readObject(...) and writeObject(...) methods for all Serializableclasses.

Ever wanted to try out Apache Spark without actually having to install anything ?

Many of the concepts of Apache Spark are pretty straightforward and easy to understand, however some lucky few can be badly misunderstood.

Apache Spark est un moteur de calcul distribué visant à remplacer et fournir des APIs de plus haut niveau pour résoudre simplement des problèmes où Hadoop montre ses limitations et sa complexité.

I recently got the occasion of trying out Play 2 in Java and i must say the Play 2 Framwork looks actually really good in Java too.

After a few hours of searching through the Play 2 documentation, the play-framework google group and other blogs or sources, i finally found this piece of code that i decided to share with you.

Une fois n'est pas coutume, je commencerais cet article avec une photo de notre dernier Timeoff LT. !

I'm using more and more Lucene these days, and getting in depth on a few subjects, today i'm going to talk to you about how to handle the new Highlighting features available with Lucene 4.1.

I've began to work more and more with the great "low-level" library Apache Lucene created by Doug Cutting.

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Don't get me wrong, i love Apache Solr, i think it's a wonderful project and the versions 4.x are definitely something you should check out when building a proper search engine.

Je ne suis pas le plus aguerri des vétérans, et je m'en rend compte encore assez souvent pour savoir que j'ai encore des sempaïsdans plus d'un domaine (pas que technique) dont certains avec qui j'ai la chance de travailler, même si ce n'est pas tout le te…

As time is always running out, i don't think i'll have the time in a while to work again on the data I collected for the last three articles, Going offline with Maven, State of the Maven/Java dependency graph and State of the PyPi/Python dependency graph.