@bigdata, a.k.a. Ben Lorica, might be my best Twitter follow. He’s been attending Cal Berkeley’s (Go Bears) AMP Camp and is now sold on Spark, an in-memory big data processing framework:
A large portion of this week’s Amp Camp at UC Berkeley, is devoted to an introduction to Spark – an open source, in-memory, cluster computing framework. After playing with Spark over the last month, I’ve come to consider it a key part of my big data toolkit. Here’s why:
Read on for more details, but that’s a solid upvote for Spark in my book.