Ocassional Notes
13. July 2023
Beam has support for working with collections of data that conforms to a schema, and you can use SQL Transforms to transform this data. This feels a bit more like working with data in spark, but beam does not have the same level of optimization.
15. November 2022
I’ve written many times about solving wordle. I still play wordle most days, but recently I’ve moved on to playing other daily games available on the NYT site, spellling bee and letter boxed. So let’s solve those too.
13. October 2022
In a chain of method calls, what happens when one of the calls returns a null? The next chained call will throw some kind of reference error. But what if you don’t want to deal with a reference error? What if you want the null value to be the answer? That’s where a safe navigation operator is useful.