Here comes the last day of 2016 year. And it is also the time for me to review my harvest about knowledge, or books.
Frankly speaking, the book “All hard thing about hard things” literally frighten me, and cause me to give up any idea about joining a startup company in China. Maybe this is the best consequence, for many startup companies failed in this end of year and I fortunately avoid this tempest.
Diving more deeper into the ocean of “Hadoop Ecosystem”, or “Big Data”, I find out Spark is really a convenient and powerful framework (compare to MapReduce) which could implement complicated algorithm or data-flow with a few lines of code. Surely, Scala is also a key element for Spark’s efficiency and concision.
Today, even normal person could imagine a sci-fi story about how modern people will fight with Alien invaders. But, what will happen if Aliens attacked the earth in the ancient time? What about Medieval age? Then comes the funny and bold sci-fi novel “The High Crusade”. A group of Medieval army defeat the invader of Alien, and did even more: occupied a frontline planet of a gigantic Alien Empire. It is really out of my imagination 🙂