Lightbend is also a leading support provider for Apache Spark users (Spark is implemented in Scala), and an author of the Reactive Streams specification that solves Fast Data’s most challenging ...

Reactive programming company Typesafe today released a survey that confirms the high adoption rate of Apache Spark, an open source Big Data processing framework that improves traditional Hadoop-based ...

It’s interesting to note that Spark and Scala were tied, considering that Spark was largely written in Scala, and that Scala remains the most popular language for programming Spark applications. From ...

Coded in Scala, Spark makes it possible to process data from data sources such as Hadoop Distributed File System, NoSQL databases, or relational data stores like Apache Hive.

At GTC 2023, Nvidia's director of engineering Sameer Raheja shared how Rapids can accelerate Apache Spark data jobs at much lower cost.

Spark Declarative Pipelines provides an easier way to define and execute data pipelines for both batch and streaming ETL workloads across any Apache Spark-supported data source, including cloud ...

We’re proud to share the complete text of O’Reilly’s new Learning Spark, 2nd Edition with you. It includes the latest updates on new features from the Apache Spark 3.0 release, to help you: ...