GitHub Actions on a "real" application

In this video, we’ll see how to use GitHub Actions to build an app, run unit tests, build Docker container image, deploy it to Azure & deploy to NuGet.org.

I was packaging a solution lately and found a couple of elements in there that were worth sharing.

I’m therefore starting a series of three articles:

1. GitHub actions (this...

Spark SQL Catalyst

Quick one this week just to mention a great talk I watched!

A Deep Dive into Spark SQL’s Catalyst Optimizer with Cheng Lian & Maryann Xue from DataBricks.

The talk is part of the Carnegie Mellon University Quarantine 2020 Database Talks. Those are organized by Andy Pavlo, the same Andy giving...

Rise of the Data Lake Tables

Two weeks ago, I attended the Subsurface Live Winter 2021, the cloud Data Lake conference, presented by Dremio.

One of the stars of the show was Apache Iceberg, an open table format for huge analytic datasets (cf web site). There were other stars, such as Project Nessie, a Git-Like Experience...