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The ins and outs of getting hold of the most popular cryptocurrency Despite the recent volatility in Bitcoin’s value, the cryptocurrency frenzy remains alive as more and more people are looking into investing in these kinds of assets. With Elon Musk driving support for Dogecoin’s development and the appearance of more sustainable and eco-friendly currencies, […]

What makes us pay $50,000 for one unit of cryptocurrency? Yet another day, yet another discussion about current cryptocurrencies’ prices in media and yet another headshake: “how is it possible that people choose to pay that much for something that is entirely digital and so volatile”? It is obvious that despite all the skepticism, cryptocurrencies […]

In the Stack overflow 2020 survey, Rust was picked as #1 most loved programming language, thanks to 86% of developers who said they would continue using it. For the language creators, this is nothing new – Rust has been winning the survey ever since 2016. On Tiobe Index, Rust is rising in popularity as well […]

During the last decade, technology has made a great impact on our lives. Over 3.6 billion people use social media worldwide and the number is going to increase. Most of us have heard fancy keywords like Big Data, Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning. However, together with the expansion of these technologies I’ve mentioned, we can […]

Tokenization has become very popular in recent years, particularly in business. Companies are increasingly choosing business tokenization as a solution because it offers new possibilities for emerging trends. Investing in tokenization can not only increase cash flow for a business but might also be a way to simplify many processes through automation, including acquiring new […]

Shopify is one of the most popular eCommerce platforms. A big part of online shops are created with it. Still, most eCommerce journeys start with WooCommerce, and then, at some point, the need to change arises. And very often, Shopify is the one to switch to. Today, we’ll explain how we succeed in migrating from […]

Python and R seem to be the first choice when it comes to data engineering. However, if we look a bit deeper, Scala is gaining more and more popularity. This is because, thanks to its functional nature, it is a more common choice when it comes to building powerful applications that need to cooperate with a vast amount of data.

Apache Kafka is the most popular event streaming platform, used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications

Scala 3 is the new major version of the Scala programming language. In this article we’ll highlight some of the changes that we think are of great value for day-to-day Scala programmers. We’ll also talk about the migration process and binary compatibility. Finally, we will conclude with our opinion on this new version.

In this article we will try to answer all the questions by examining Hadoop and Spark from a few perspectives.