This Introduction to SPARK webinar will feature Daniel Gutierrez, Managing Editor of insideBIGDATA.

In the past year, the Apache Spark distributed computing architecture has continued its upward trajectory amongst the big data players. Its growth has been fueled by several innovative differentiators for big data applications, such as MapReduce 2.0 (or YARN), provisions for analytic workflows, and efficient use of memory. Databricks’ recent 2015 Spark industry survey reports that Spark adoption is outpacing Hadoop because of its accelerated access to big data. In support of this new computing architecture.