Spark 2.0 Highlights from Spark Summit SF 2016

We have an exciting event the week after Spark Summit San Francisco. Of particular focus we will be talking about the advancements into Apache Spark 2.0 including:

• Unified APIs: Emphasis on building up higher level APIs including the merging of DataFrame and Dataset APIs

• Structured Streaming: Simplify streaming by building continuous applications on top of DataFrames allow us to unify streaming, interactive, and batch queries.

• Tungsten Phase 2: Speed up Apache Spark by 10X

As well, other highlights include:

• Recent Developments In SparkR For Advanced Analytics

• MLlib 2.0: Data Science and Production

Thank you Extrahop for hosting and sponsoring beer and pizza!

For parking: Pacific Place is $6 after 5pm. 3rd and Stewart Garage is also $6. There are also many other garages in the area.