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  • Investing in big data technologies

    The O’Reilly Data Show podcast: A fireside chat with Ben Horowitz, plus Reynold Xin on the rise of Apache Spark in China. [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar.] Subscribe to the O’Reilly…

  • Apache Spark in the Enterprise and in China

    Enterprise Adoption IBM’s announcements at the recent Spark Summit in SF bodes well for enterprise adoption of Spark. Ben Horowitz jokingly referred to IBM’s endorsement as akin to a Rabbi blessing Spark as kosher for use…

  • Large-scale Data Science and Machine Learning with Spark

    [Full disclosure: I’m an advisor to Databricks.] At last year’s Spark Summit in SF, Ali Ghodsi gave the first public demo of Databricks Cloud and Workspace. As I noted at the time, it was a showstopper!…

  • Apache Spark: Powering applications on-premise and in the cloud

    [A version of this post appears on the O’Reilly Radar.] As organizations shift their focus toward building analytic applications, many are relying on components from the Apache Spark ecosystem. I began pointing this out in advance…

  • The Spark Spot at Spark Summit East 2015 – NYC

    I had a series of conversations with a few lead developers and users of Apache Spark, at the recent Spark Summit NYC conference. You can view them on Youtube or using the player below:

    The Spark Spot at Spark Summit East 2015 – NYC

  • Spark Summit East panel

    Here’s a video of our well-received panel from a few weeks ago, featuring Abhishek Mehta , Tresata – Founder & CEO George Mathew , Alteryx – President & COO Patrick Wendell , Databricks – Co-founder Martin…

    Spark Summit East panel