There has been a lot of buzz around Apache Spark recently including some big companies committing significant resources to the open source platform. While some technologies are just a flash in the frying pan, Spark seems to be here to stay. With that in mind we decided to take a deeper look into Spark and help explain what’s behind the curtain
In this video presentation, Ricky gives an intro to Apache Spark, going over the history of Apache Spark and when and why you should use it. He also the differences between Hadoop and Spark.
In next week’s blog we will take it a step further and go through a working example of Apache Spark. So stay tuned!