Quantum Computing - Value Proposition

Quantum Computing has gone from being an academic curiosity to a big bet in the last decade.  Microsoft, Google, IBM and plenty of others are investing into that technology.

There still isn’t a large scale Quantum Computer commercially availably, but many think it’s around...

Import Notebooks in Databricks

We’ve recently looked Azure Databricks:

• Getting Started
• Resilient Distributed Dataset
• Spark SQL – Data Frames
• Transforming Data Frames in Spark
• Parsing escaping CSV files in Spark

In most cases we did share notebooks on GitHub.

Here we wanted to show...

How to get rid of /api in Azure Function’s route?

We looked at Azure Functions.

We also looked at security around Azure Function used to implement APIs.

Something people will quickly notice when implementing an Webhook / API  function is that its URL or route is always prepended by /api.

For instance, if we create a webhook...

Azure Databricks - Parsing escaping CSV files in Spark

In previous weeks, we’ve looked at Azure Databricks, Azure’s managed Spark cluster service.

We then looked at Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs) & Spark SQL / Data Frames.  We also looked at an example of more tedious transformation prior to querying using the H-1B Visa...

Azure Databricks - Transforming Data Frames in Spark

In previous weeks, we’ve looked at Azure Databricks, Azure’s managed Spark cluster service.

We then looked at Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs) & Spark SQL / Data Frames.

We wanted to look at some more Data Frames, with a bigger data set, more precisely some...