Blog posts tagged with 'scala''

2025-06-05: Some personal updates: My upcoming talk @ Scala Days 2025 in Lausanne, Switzerland, my new website, switching from Hugo, thoughts on the modern web & minimalism, and maintaining ink-free (for the ~2 people using my RSS feed).

2025-05-18: Upgrades to Bridge Four, the functional, effectful distributed compute system optimized for embarrassingly parallel workloads: Updating Scala, auto-scaling workers, and implementing leader election with Raft (or half of a replicated state machine).

2024-02-19: Improving Bridge Four, a simple, functional, effectful, single-leader, multi worker, distributed compute system optimized for embarrassingly parallel workloads by providing consistency guarantees and improving overall code quality (or something like that).

2023-06-19: Building something that already exist (but worse) so I don't have to think about Leetcode: Bridge Four, a simple, functional, effectful, single-leader, multi worker, distributed compute system optimized for embarrassingly parallel workloads.

2022-09-08: Tracking vehicle location offline with a Raspberry Pi, Part 2: Apache Flink, scala, Kafka, and road-testing.

2022-08-29: Building custom Linux images, dealing with a 40 year old GPS standard, & trying to shoehorn functional programming into Python: Tracking vehicle location offline with a Raspberry Pi. (Part 1)

2022-06-01: Types, type classes, implicits, tagless-final, effects, and other things: Not everything in the world of functional programming is bleak and overly academic. A view on FP & scala concepts someone who loves to complain actually likes.

2022-02-27: Reviewing 'Essential Scala' and 'Functional Programming Simplified', while explaining why Spark has nothing to do with Scala, and asking why learning Functional Programming is such a pain. A (maybe) productive rant (or an opinionated essay).

2021-12-03: How I build what is essentially a self-service Data Lake at home to narrow down the search area for a new house, instead of using Zillow like a normal person, using Spark, Iceberg, and Python.

2017-11-04: This article will talk about how organizations can make use of the wonderful thing that is commonly referred to as “Data Lake” - what constitutes a Data Lake, how probably should (and shouldn’t) use it to gather insights and why evaluating technologies is just as important as understanding your data...

2017-03-06: How I made an old Crown Victoria "smart" by using Telematics...