About how to build a recommendation engine using Spark MLLib, Spark streaming, kafka, mongodb using scala.

This is the first post about how to create a recommendation engine, the preliminar know how to build a good recommendation engine. What is it a recommendation engine? well, the users from Spotify, Amazon and Netflix know that the recommendations shown to us are really accurate, it looks like there are somebody who knows us…

About an example using kafka, spark-streaming, mongodb and twitter

Hi everyone, in my process of mastering scala and big data technologies, i am learning how to integrate apache kafka, spark-streaming, mongodb and twitter. The idea is simple, a producer process trying to push json tweets from twitter within a kafka topic and another spark-streaming process trying to pull data from that topic and storing…