Reading Time: 4 minutes In this blog, we will try to understand the concept of Persistence in Apache Spark in a very layman term with scenario-based examples. Note: The scenarios are only meant for your easy understanding. Spark Architecture Note: Cache memory can be shared between Executors. What does it mean by persisting/caching an RDD? Spark RDD persistence is an optimization technique which saves the result of RDD evaluation Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes To build a rest point application, there are many options available like Akka Http, Finagle, Play Framework, Lagom etc. In our project, we are using Akka HTTP for building rest applications. We have lots of requests related to analytics. There are many requests which are very expensive. So, we faced an issue where our application was taking time to respond to some analytics. We have Continue Reading
Reading Time: < 1 minute Dribbling Filter.js Play framework with client-side JS filtering of JSON objects and rendering HTML snippets via jQuery. Big chunk to display? Interactive filtering? Most importantly it has to be really fast. Isn’t it like dribbling against Netherland! Big ground, lots of hooting and most importantly have to be fast and win UI programming is an exciting ground to play, That’s why i chose reactive platform Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the last post on understanding caching we talked about the general support of GAE for caching and how we could easily incorporate caching in our application. You would also recollect that we talked about the invasive form of caching in which the business layer was aware about the caching framework. In this post let us talk about the non-invasive way to cache. Since caching Continue Reading
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you have been following the Google App Engine downtime notify group then you would realize that the datastore has been behaving erratically over the last 2 weeks. Though we had been thinking about exploiting Memcache for caching for a while now, but the last 2 weeks proved to be the perfect alibi. Another reason was the comment that we got on our blog by Continue Reading
