Spark Live 2016 Tour Recap
The Apache Spark community had quite the year in 2016. It has maintained its billing as the largest and most active open source...
Top 10 Apache Spark Blog Posts from 2016
Spark Summit will be held in Dublin, Ireland on Oct 24-26, 2017. Check out the get your ticket before it sells out! Here’s...
Introducing Apache Spark 2.1
Spark Summit will be held in Boston on Feb 7-9, 2017. Check out the full agenda and get your ticket before it sells...
10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Using Apache SparkR
This is a guest post from Neil Dewar , a senior data science manager at a global asset management firm. In this blog...
Deep Learning on Databricks
We are excited to announce the general availability of Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) and deep learning support on Databricks! This blog post will...
Scalable Partition Handling for Cloud-Native Architecture in Apache Spark 2.1
Apache Spark 2.1 is just around the corner: the community is going through voting process for the release candidates. This blog post discusses...
On Demand Webinar and FAQ: Apache Spark MLlib 2.x: Migrating ML Workloads to DataFrames
Last week, we held a live webinar, Apache Spark MLlib 2.x: Migrating ML Workloads to DataFrames , to demonstrate the ease with which...
Apache Spark Scala Library Development with Databricks
Try this notebook in Databricks The movie Toy Story was released in 1995 by Pixar as the first feature-length computer animated film. Even...
Integrating Apache Airflow and Databricks: Building ETL pipelines with Apache Spark
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: How to Evaluate Cloud-based Apache Spark Platforms
Last week, we held a live webinar, How to Evaluate Cloud-based Apache Spark Platforms , to help those who are currently evaluating various...