Check for Predicate Pushdown in BigQuery with Apache Spark on Databricks

When I tested the features of the recently released Databricks on the Google Cloud platform, I checked out the BigQuery integration. Databricks is using a fork of the open-source Google Spark Connector for BigQuery. So I wondered how to check if a certain predicate of a query is indeed pushed down to BigQuery (or not). It turns out it is easy!

https://medium.com/geekculture/predicate-pushdown-for-apache-spark-with-google-bigquery-2ad4f9e81e6

Drone Delivery of your Amazon Orders with Apache Kafka

At re:Invent 2019 I claimed the stage with a presentation about Apache Kafka and drone delivery of Amazon orders. Note, there are no slides or recordings available for this presentation.

For slides about Apache Kafka on AWS please check my speakerderdeck account or my YouTube channel.

Apache Kafka on AWS

I recently collected some resources about running Apache Kafka on AWS (with or without using Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka) after recording a webcast about it.

You can find the Medium article here with all the links and ressources.

If you are only interested in the slide set about Apache Kafka on AWS, it’s on speakerdeck:

KubeCon 2019 Barcelona: Service Mesh Presentation (AWS AppMesh

Earlier this year in May, I presented at KubeConf 2019 in Barcelona about what is Service Mesh and how AWS does Service Mesh to almost 600 attendees. It was the best rated presentation at the AWS Container day (4.4 of 5.0).

For more resources regarding Istio and Envoy on Amazon EKS, have a look at this article that I created earlier before App Mesh was released.

Serverless Days Zurich: 2019 Update – Serverless Beyond Lambda

This Thursday I will present a new topic at Serverless Days Conference 2019 in Zürich. Once done, I will publish a link to the slides here.

2019 Update: Serverless Beyond Lambda

https://zurich.serverlessdays.io/speakers/frank-munz.html