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Xavier Geerinck

Creating an Azure Data Lake Gen 2 File Browser for the Web

Creating an Azure Data Lake Gen 2 File Browser for the Web

While working with Azure Data Lake Gen 2 (ADLS Gen 2), I saw that one common ask from the people around me is to be able to interact with it through a web portal. As Microsoft we offer customers the chance already to utilize a tool called "Azure Storage

Quantum Computing - An Introduction

Quantum Computing - An Introduction

Quantum Computing is a hype growing more and more these days, but what is it? Why should we use it and how can we get started with it? This is what I would like to tackle in this post. Quantum Computing? As written in the excellent publication by Richard P.

Creating a Big Data cluster with SQL Server 2019

Creating a Big Data cluster with SQL Server 2019

SQL Server 2019 came out in preview a while ago, and the new features announced are just wonderful! A one-to-go-tool for all your big data needs: Unstructured and Structured data that can be processed using just one tool! But the most wonderful feature of all in my opinion are the

Quantum Computing - A Linear Algebra Refresher

Quantum Computing - A Linear Algebra Refresher

Quantum requires a lot of Linear Algebra, so much even that it's very interesting to have a quick reminder about it. In here I will explain the basics of Linear Algebra that are needed to work with Quantum Computing. Basic Concepts Most often used in Quantum Computing are

Sending emails in Databricks by using Scala

Sending emails in Databricks by using Scala

This is going to be quite a short post, but is more intended as reference :) Something I found to be quite interesting is sending emails through Databricks to warn me when something happened in parts of my code. After searching a bit, I came up with this code that would

Using secrets to hide passwords and other confidential information in Databricks

Using secrets to hide passwords and other confidential information in Databricks

A common something that you want to do in Databricks is hide your passwords and other confidential information in it, because else it will all be visible within your notebooks and logs. Installing Databricks CLI Luckily Databricks allows us just this. But before we can get started, we first have

The Achievers Mindset

The Achievers Mindset

When I tell people that I had 5 startups (yes, see my projects), worked for 2, graduated 1.5 years ago as a Industrial Engineer in Computer Science and straight out of school got hired at one of the largest tech firm, then people are always coming up with the