Spark/Shark Tutorial for Amazon EMR
This weekend, Amazon posted an article and code that make it easy to launch Spark and Shark on Elastic MapReduce. The article includes examples of how to run both interactive Scala commands and SQL...
View ArticleSpark 0.7.0 released
We’re proud to announce the release of Spark 0.7.0, a new major version of Spark that adds several key features, including a Python API for Spark and an alpha of Spark Streaming. This release is the...
View ArticleStrata exercises now available online
At this year’s Strata conference, the AMP Lab hosted a full day of tutorials on Spark, Shark, and Spark Streaming, including online exercises on Amazon EC2. Those exercises are now available online,...
View ArticleSpark screencasts published
We have released the first two screencasts in a series of short hands-on video training courses we will be publishing to help new users get up and running with Spark in minutes. The first Spark...
View ArticleSpark 0.7.2 released
We’re happy to announce the release of Spark 0.7.2, a new maintenance release that includes several bug fixes and improvements, as well as new code examples and API features. We recommend that all...
View ArticleSpark featured in Wired
Spark, its creators at the AMP Lab, and some of its users were featured in a Wired Enterprise article a few days ago. Read on to learn a little about how Spark is being used in industry.
View ArticleSpark accepted into Apache Incubator
Spark was recently accepted into the Apache Incubator, which will serve as the long-term home for the project. While moving the source code and issue tracking to Apache will take some time, we are...
View ArticleSpark 0.7.3 released
We’ve just posted Spark Release 0.7.3, a maintenance release that contains several fixes, including streaming API updates and new functionality for adding JARs to a spark-shell session. We recommend...
View ArticleSpark mailing lists moving to Apache
As part of the Spark project’s recent move to Apache, we are planning to migrate the mailing lists to Apache infrastructure this month, so that the existing Google groups will become read-only on...
View ArticleRegistration open for AMP Camp training camp in Berkeley
Want to learn how to use Spark, Shark, GraphX, and related technologies in person? The AMP Lab is hosting a two-day training workshop for them on August 29th and 30th in Berkeley. The workshop will...
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