Ian Pointer is a senior big data and deep learning architect, working with Apache Spark and PyTorch. He has more than 15 years of development and operations experience.

.NET for Apache Spark brings enterprise coders and big data pros to the same table A year ago, Microsoft enabled .NET developers to work with Apache Spark using C# or F#, instead of Python or Scala.

Apache Spark stole the show at the Big Data TechCon in Boston this week. Thanks to a keynote address from Spark’s creator, and a number of tutorials focused on the project, attendees had plenty ...

Smoothing the way to advanced and real-time analytics on Hadoop, Apache Spark is fast becoming the next big thing in big data ...

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 ...

The Apache Spark Big Data processing framework will account for more than a third of all Big Data spending by 2022, according to new research by Wikibon. Wikibon Big Data analyst George Gilbert ...

In this article, we explored the powerful combination of Apache Spark and Jupyter for big data analytics on a Linux platform. By leveraging the speed and versatility of Spark with the interactive ...

Indeed, the recent merger of the two “big” Hadoop companies (Cloudera and Hortonworks) indicates the market is maturing and adjusting to the tail of the hype cycle. To be clear, Hadoop and Spark are ...

For several years big data has been nearly synonymous with Hadoop, a relatively inexpensive way to store huge amounts of data on commodity servers. But recently banks have started using an alternative ...