Introduction to Spark

Introduction to Spark

Considered by many as the successor to Hadoop, Spark is today used by many major players such as Amazon or Ebay. With its ability to perform fast in-memory computing on clusters with thousands of nodes, Spark has become one of the most promising technology regarding large datasets analysis. In this webinar, we will introduce Spark's core functionalities and cover the challenges it involves.

About Francis

Francis is a software developer, Scala team lead at Yoppworks, convinced agilist, living in Montreal with 11 years experience developing web/mobile apps, and optimizing work processes. His current passions are learning new languages and contributing to build distributed and scalable applications. Francis also gives presentations (http://francistoth.github.io/blog/presentations.html) from time to time, play the guitar, love music, and like to try new beers.

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