Tag: Spark

October 24, 2018

Microsoft has revamped its MMLSpark open source project, the better to integrate “many deep learning and data science tools to the Spark ecosystem,” according to the notes on the project repository. MMLSpark, originally released last year, is a collection of […]

May 25, 2017

Pepperdata, the DevOps for Big Data company, today announced Pepperdata Code Analyzer for Apache Spark, which provides Spark application developers the ability to identify performance issues and connect them to particular blocks of code within an application. Code Analyzer is […]

April 19, 2017

Munshi and Carson see lots of companies experimenting with getting into the Big Data space, mostly with consumer-facing data first on the personalization side, because that’s the easiest, most understood option. Munshi said, “We’ve gone from, ‘Let’s try this thing […]

March 14, 2017

With every cool new technology, people get overly infatuated and start using it for the wrong things. For example: Looking through a bazillion records for a few million marked with a set of criteria is a rather stupid use of […]

February 14, 2017

Want Google TensorFlow’s deep learning chocolate in your Spark peanut butter? Good news: Yahoo has unveiled TensorFlowOnSpark to satisfy that craving. Last year Yahoo combined two stars of big data and machine learning, integrating the in-memory data processing framework Spark […]

November 3, 2016

The closely watched launch on Wednesday of Microsoft’s Teams, a rival to chat platforms Slack and HipChat, shows how important this kind of collaboration is for any company that wants to dominate workday life. Cisco Systems is no exception. On […]

June 9, 2016

Over the course of the last couple of years, Apache Spark has enjoyed explosive growth in both usage and mind share. These days, any self-respecting big data offering is obliged to either connect to or make use of it. Now […]

March 17, 2016

Apache Spark didn’t merely make big data processing faster; it also made it simpler, more powerful, and more convenient. Spark isn’t only one thing; it’s a collection of components under a common umbrella. And each component is a work in […]