Installing Tachyon (In-Memory-File-System) As A Cluster

This post shows how to setup and configure Tachyon as a cluster. Quick Pointers: Tachyon Home Page Version

Spark Summit 2015 highlights and recap

(Disclaimer : This is not an official post from Databricks) Spark Summit 2015 in San Francisco was well attended.  Kudos

Spark is your friend? – We’ll see about that

  Spark is your friend? – We’ll see about that.   Spark likes to pretend that it is

Why is Spark a winner? – The second reason

In my last installment I described how Microsoft missed its chance to be the leader in the Big

The irony of the story (Microsoft, Hadoop and Dryad)

  Microsoft’s relationship with Hadoop was for a long time ambiguous: from a rumor about “Hadoop on Azure”

SkilledUp Interviews Sujee Maniyam on Apache Spark

SkilledUp Interview on Apache Spark

Understanding Spark caching

Spark is great for cached data.  Take a look here to understand various caching options for spark. Read