• Jan 16, 2016

  Introduction to ElasticSearch

  ElasticSearch is an excellent way to organise and search un-structured and text-rich information. This tutorial runs through the installation of ElasticSearch on a machine and the basic steps for adding, searching and sorting documents.

  
  
• Aug 21, 2015

  Setting up an Apache Spark Cluster

  Some notes on how to set up an Apache Spark cluster across machines. It deals with the setup of the master/manager and worker machines.

  
  
• Aug 10, 2015

  Setting up Apache Cassandra

  Some notes on how to get started with Apache Cassandra on Ubuntu. Both as a standalone database and as a replicated cluster.

  
  
• Jul 30, 2015

  Setting up Apache Spark and IPython

  Some notes on how to get started with Apache Spark on Ubuntu. It includes configuring IPython to run using a standalone pySpark.