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In Part 1 of this series we installed Hadoop 3.3.6 natively on Ubuntu 24.04 and got HDFS running in pseudo-distributed mode. That gave us a working distributed file system, but Hadoop is much more than storage — its true power lies in processing large datasets in...
When I started working with Hadoop in a learning environment, the course guide indicated using Linux Mint in a virtual machine. However, I already had Ubuntu 24.04 installed natively on my Dell Vostro with 32 GB of RAM, and it seemed smarter to leverage it directly. In...
PersonaPlex: Mastering Conversational English with NVIDIA and RunPod
As a data scientist and developer, I rely on advanced LLMs (Large Language Models) like Claude Opus, Sonnet, GPT-4.1, and GPT-4o for both architectural planning and daily coding. But I quickly learned that the same model behaves differently depending on the platform—and...
Last quarter, I needed to forecast SMS volume for budget planning. The catch? Our SMS volume directly depends on how many locations we operate—and that number is also growing. I couldn’t just extrapolate historical trends; I needed a model that accounts for this external...
A complete guide from dbt fundamentals to Python-powered transformations
A comprehensive quick reference for Cypher, the query language for graph databases. This guide focuses on Cypher syntax and patterns that work across Neo4j, Kuzu, and other graph databases supporting Cypher.
I work daily with GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, and like many developers, I often think faster than I type. Speech‑to‑Text (STT) is an obvious productivity multiplier — but there’s a catch: