Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more ...

Another year passes. I was hoping to write more articles instead of just these end-of-the-year screeds, but I almost died in the spring semester, and it sucked up my time. Nevertheless, I will go ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. In helping students prepare for this exam, I have identified a number of commonly misunderstood ...

The AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate exam validates your ability to design, build, and maintain data processing systems that support analytics and business intelligence across AWS services. It ...

Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. This article shows data engineers how to use PyIceberg, a lightweight and powerful Python library ...

Note that kwack requires Java 17 or higher. To run kwack, download a release, unpack it. Then change to the kwack-${version} directory and run the following to see ...

Most existing coverage-based (epi)genomic datasets are one-dimensional, but newer technologies probing interactions (physical, genetic, etc.) produce quantitative maps with two-dimensional genomic ...