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Matthew Rathbone

Personal blog · blog.matthewrathbone.comdataprogramming

Matthew Rathbone writes Rathboma's Blog, a personal blog at blog.matthewrathbone.com about data and programming. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-25, and you can follow it by feed.

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12mentions?
3HN people?
2012–2020first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2017

I run a couple of open source businesses and write a bunch of code. I have lots of opinions, and sometimes I even say something interesting.

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  1. rathboma · 2017-09-01
    Making ~$500/month from a combination of things: https://blog.matthewrathbone.com - Articles about Hadoop, Hive, and Spark with Amazon book and Coursera course affiliate links https://www.99inbound.com - Forms and form-endpoints for close.io, add a form to your website and have entries sync to Close.io as new leads. Made this as a side-project when I needed this functionality and didn't want to pay out the nose for…

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    on “Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell”
  2. rathboma · 2017-01-14

    Submitted 10+ Great books for Spark (featuring holdenkarau twice) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. rathboma · 2017-03-28
    If you're looking for books I recently made a list of good books for Scala - https://blog.matthewrathbone.com/2017/02/14/scala-books.html . Otherwise Scala School is awesome: https://twitter.github.io/scala_school/ When I worked at Foursquare we would send folks to the Scala School website as homework. :-)

    Comment linking /2017/02/14/scala-books.html

    on “Ask HN: What are the best resources to properly learn Scala?”
  4. rathboma · 2016-01-05

    Submitted 5 Engineers Talk about Their Favorite MapReduce Frameworks as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. rathboma · 2015-08-18

    Submitted A comprehensive guide to all types of Apache Hive functions (UDF, UDTF, UDAF) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. rajbala · 2013-07-24

    Submitted Implementing a Left Outer Join in Map Reduce as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. rathboma · 2013-02-22

    Submitted Implementing a Left Outer Join in Hive as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. rathboma · 2020-01-14

    Submitted Beginners Guide to Columnar File Formats in Spark and Hadoop as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. rathboma · 2017-03-30

    Submitted A Quick Guide to Concurrency in Scala as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. mhausenblas · 2014-06-16

    Submitted 8 SQL-on-Hadoop frameworks worth checking out as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. rathboma · 2013-01-21

    Submitted A Quick Guide to Hadoop Map Reduce Frameworks as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. rathboma · 2012-05-03

    Submitted One-touch check-ins for foursquare on android as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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