1st Spark: Derek Wollenstein welcomes Scala for Startups meetup to Klout for Apache Spark talks
This is the Scala for Startups Meetup on December 12th, 2011. You'll notice it's not quite a palindrome, so that's a little bit of a disappointment, but we couldn't schedule it on a palindromatic day. And um our main presentation, of course, is on Spark and Big Data. And this is something we're very interested in here at Cloudera because um you know, if you've ever worked with um with some of the existing state-of-the-art systems for Big Data, which is basically, you know, for most people that's Hadoop. Obviously, some people are lucky enough to have access to MapReduce, but you know, we're not in that category. But it can be very frustrating to wait for this to run. I think um one of our engineers said that it's back to the days of Fortran. And so, it's really exciting to be able to go and um be able to get kind of real-time results on your Big Data
And that's really what Spark lets you do, and it does it pretty much by allowing you to operate on in-memory data sets instead of on-disk data sets. Okay, I'm done cuz this isn't my presentation. >> [laughter]