Released last year in July, Apache Spark 2.0 was more than just an increase in its numerical notation from 1.x to 2.0: It was a monumental shift in ease of use, higher performance, and smarter ...

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Hadoop and Spark clusters have a reputation for being extremely difficult to configure, install, and tune, but help is on the way. The good folks at Cluster Monkey are hosting a crash course entitled ...

For data engineers, building fast, reliable pipelines is only the beginning. Today, you also need to deliver clean, high quality data ready for downstream users to do BI and ML. Apache Spark™ and ...

For data engineers, building fast, reliable pipelines is only the beginning. Today, you also need to deliver clean, high quality data ready for downstream users to do BI and ML. Apache Spark™ and ...

You probably did not hear it here first. Spark has been making waves in big data for a while now, and 2017 has not disappointed anyone who has bet on its meteoric rise. That was a pretty safe bet ...

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This week at Spark Summit, data management companies are rolling out new Spark integrations and support at Spark Summit to enable their users to take advantage of the open source data processing ...