Quite a bit of hard news this week — nine stories, including software releases from Hortonworks and Confluent, a milestone for Apache Kylin, and three funding stories. Plus, a number of items “above the news.” Let’s get to it. Risk Management on Spark The growing number of applications that run on Spark show the platform is maturing. ThinkReactive, a consultancy
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My roundup of the Spark Summit Europe is here. Two important events this week: H2O World starts today and runs through Wednesday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA. Yotam Levy summarizes here and here. Open Data Science Conference meets November 14-15 at the Marriott Waterfront in SFO Five backgrounders and explainers: At HUG London, Apache’s Ufuk Celebi
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The 2015 Spark Summit Europe met in Amsterdam October 27-29. Here is a roundup of the presentations, organized by subject areas. I’ve omitted a few less interesting presentations, including some advertorials from sponsors. State of Spark — In his keynoter, Matei Zaharia recaps findings from Databricks’ Spark user survey, notes growth in summit attendance, meetup membership and contributor headcount.
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