A Spark application contains several components, all of which exist whether you’re running Spark on a single machine or across a cluster of hundreds or thousands of nodes. Each component has a ...

If there is a “bottom line” to measuring the effectiveness of your big-data applications, it’s arguably performance, or how quickly those apps can finish the jobs they run. Let’s consider Spark. Spark ...

The nice thing about open source projects and standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. And on January 10, the Apache community welcomed Beam as its "="" project"=""> (getting top ...