Delivering a Personalized Shopping Experience with Apache Spark on DatabricksMarch 31, 2017 by Brett Bevers, Engineering Manager, Data Engineering at Dollar Shave Club in Product This is a guest blog from our friends at Dollar Shave Club. Dollar Shave Club (DSC) is a men's lifestyle brand and e-commerce...
How Apache Spark on Databricks is Taming the Wild West of Wi-FiFebruary 27, 2017 by Tomasz Magdanski in Company Blog iPass is the world’s largest Wi-Fi provider, yet we don’t own a single hotspot. You can think of us as the Uber of...
Anonymizing Datasets at Scale Leveraging Databricks InteroperabilityFebruary 13, 2017 by Don Hillborn in Product A key challenge for data-driven companies across a wide range of industries is how to leverage the benefits of analytics at scale when...
Announcing the Spark Live 2017 World TourJanuary 31, 2017 by Wayne Chan in Company Blog Due to the enthusiasm and positive feedback from last year’s Spark Live tour, we will be hitting the road again in 2017 to...
Integrating Your Central Apache Hive Metastore with Apache Spark on DatabricksJanuary 30, 2017 by Miklos Christine in Company Blog Databricks provides a managed Apache Spark platform to simplify running production applications, real-time data exploration, and infrastructure complexity. A key piece of the...
Delivering Exceptional Care Through Data-Driven MedicineJanuary 25, 2017 by Jorge Caballero in Company Blog This is a guest blog from our friends at Distal. Today, 96% of U.S. health care providers use electronic health records (EHRs) -...
Integration of AWS Data Pipeline with Databricks: Building ETL pipelines with Apache SparkJanuary 23, 2017 by Peyman Mohajerian in Product This is one of a series of blogs on integrating Databricks with commonly used software packages. See the “What’s Next” section at the...
On-Demand Webinar and FAQ: Apache Spark - The Unified Engine for All WorkloadsJanuary 18, 2017 by Wayne Chan in Company Blog Last week, we held a live webinar — Apache Spark - The Unified Engine for All Workloads — to explain the real-world benefits...
Spark Live 2016 Tour RecapJanuary 3, 2017 by Wayne Chan in Company Blog The Apache Spark community had quite the year in 2016. It has maintained its billing as the largest and most active open source...
Apache Spark Scala Library Development with DatabricksDecember 12, 2016 by Jason Pohl in Company Blog Try this notebook in Databricks The movie Toy Story was released in 1995 by Pixar as the first feature-length computer animated film. Even...