/tags/books/ Recent content in Books on Ayoub Fakir Hugo en-us Thu, 01 Jul 2021 20:03:58 +0100 /post/en-10-great-books-for-functional-programming-in-scala/ Fri, 17 Mar 2017 05:47:36 +0200 /post/en-10-great-books-for-functional-programming-in-scala/ <p>This article was co-authored by <a href="https://blog.matthewrathbone.com/">Matthew Rathbone</a></p> <p><img alt="img" loading="lazy" src="https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/4b8a4dcbce3e4561018d5f8e84d92e8b5f05563d/f25fa/img/blog/scala-books/title.jpg"></p> <p>image by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasleuthard/19070717313">Thomas Leuthard</a></p> <p>James Gosling, creator of Java, said:</p> <blockquote> <p>“If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala.”</p> </blockquote> <p>Scala is a <em>hot</em> language in software development today, it is used by a range of start-ups for application development and has been adopted as the unofficial language of big data software development thanks to frameworks like Spark. As a language it is less verbose than Java, and has a number of unique features that make it more flexible too. Scala is both functional, object oriented, and truly multi-threaded – so it provides a very unique development environment. There’s so much to Scala that whatever stage of programming you’re at, you’ll probably want some books!</p> /post/en-10-great-books-for-apache-spark/ Fri, 13 Jan 2017 05:45:12 +0200 /post/en-10-great-books-for-apache-spark/ <p>This article was co-authored by <a href="https://blog.matthewrathbone.com/">Matthew Rathbone</a></p> <p><img alt="img" loading="lazy" src="https://d33wubrfki0l68.cloudfront.net/8177dc9c6ec5935b75460f41e29cecfebe9a5c20/2662a/img/blog/books.jpg"></p> <p>image by <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/eeSdJfLfx1A">Ed Robertson</a></p> <p>Apache Spark is a super useful distributed processing framework that works well with Hadoop and YARN. Many industry users have reported it to be 100x faster than Hadoop MapReduce for in certain memory-heavy tasks, and 10x faster while processing data on disk.</p> <p>While Spark has incredible power, it is not always easy to find good resources or books to learn more about it, so I thought I’d compile a list. I’ll keep this list up to date as new resources come out.</p>