It's kind of awkward when you talk to yourself but, according to some experts in the matter, it's a good thing. Even though people might think you're sort of crazy, I must confess I do it multiple times on a daily basis to, somehow, confirm that my thoughts make sense in "the real world" and …
INVESTie, the crypto trading service leveraging Big Data technologies
Hello hello, myself Two blog posts in one month, unbelievable! I managed to bring new content thanks to my very great students who will share a top notch group assignment they worked on recently. Javier Nieves, Dareen Shaheen, Mohamad Rizk, Amanda Moles, Ian Zaqueu and Connie Kim, students of the part-time Master I've been delivering …
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It’s 2023 and OSBDET 2023 Release 1 is out!
Happy New Year future self! I hope this year is a bit better than the last 3 years we've had lately; I always like to embrace the future with positivism and energy, and I cannot think of a better way to do so than spending some time on OSBDET and coming up with a new …
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A2B fly with me, Graph Processing at scale with Spark GraphFrames
Hey Raúl, It's been a while since the last time you stopped by... June 4th 2021 to be precise! A lot of things have happened since then and, among other things I should have posted about, this one deserves special attention as it is memorable and it deserves to be remembered and shared with the …
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Big Data frameworks on an Apple M1/Silicon for educational purposes
Dear Raúl, It's been a while since the last time you stopped by this blog; hectic times lately but no worries, all good 🙂 This time two of your top students, Michelle Michalovski and Göktuğ Aşcı, helped you with this topic that seems to be hot in your classes for the last months given that …
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NetFlow traffic ingestion with Splunk Stream and an Independent Stream Forwarder: Part 2 (by Lucas Alados)
Hi there, I did it! I was able to get insights from NetFlow traffic with Splunk long before my retirement. Thanks for that Raúl! Now, imagine you want some help to quickly get value from your Netflow data at Splunk and you want not only to be able to play with real time data but …
NetFlow traffic ingestion with Splunk Stream and an Independent Stream Forwarder
Hey there, Network stuff is what's bringing me here again and very excited of everything I've accomplished so far, because it's been a while since the last time I had to deal with networking things at such low level. Here is the point: You are a network guy with plenty of network devices and a …
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Building an analytics and multi data-set OVA for learners
Hey Raúl, You have taken advantage of the 2019 Christmas break to build some stuff that will make your classes at IE School of Human Science and Technology easier to follow (hopefully); this deserves another blog entry to remember everything you did just in case you have to make some changes in the future 🙂 …
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Secure traveling to Scotland to help my friend James
This is a very special blog entry for many reasons. First of all because it's been jointly written with my great Scottish friend, James Morrison, and secondly because it'll help us to keep him as a Linux user even though his laptop breaks after any update process. Now I'm able to travel to Scotland very …
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Manjaro in HP Notebook 255 G7 AMD A4-9125, making my friend James Morrison even more special :)
A new post starting a new category one more time, and this time it's much more special as it's related to my very good friend James Morrison. I could be writing for ages what a great person he is and what a lovely family and friends he's surrounded by, but he won't feel very comfortable …
Agentless sensor data ingestion with Splunk via HEC
It's been 1 month since I joined Splunk and I'm enjoying every single minute; nice team, great company and, overall, cool technology. Every day I find something new delighting me and cannot wait to play around with it. From the technical stand point, being a sales engineer is not all about playing with technology but …
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Dear future self 