"Learning Spark" book available from O'ReillyFebruary 9, 2015 by Holden Karau, Andy Konwinski, Patrick Wendell and Matei Zaharia in Company Blog Today we are happy to announce that the complete Learning Spark book is available from O’Reilly in e-book form with the print copy...
The State of Apache Spark in 2014July 18, 2014 by Matei Zaharia in Engineering Blog This post originally appeared in insideBIGDATA and is reposted here with permission. With the second Spark Summit behind us, we wanted to take...
Making Apache Spark Easier to Use in Java with Java 8April 14, 2014 by Prashant Sharma and Matei Zaharia in Engineering Blog One of Apache Spark’s main goals is to make big data applications easier to write. Spark has always had concise APIs in Scala...
Apache Spark: A Delight for DevelopersMarch 20, 2014 by Jai Ranganathan and Matei Zaharia in Engineering Blog This article was cross-posted in the Cloudera developer blog . Apache Spark is well known today for its performance benefits over MapReduce...
The Growing Apache Spark CommunityOctober 27, 2013 by Matei Zaharia in Announcements This year has seen unprecedented growth in both the user and contributor communities around Apache Spark . This rapid growth validates the tremendous...
Databricks and the Apache Spark PlatformOctober 27, 2013 by Ion Stoica and Matei Zaharia in Company Blog When we announced that the original team behind Apache Spark is starting a company around the project, we got a lot of excited...