strata
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Map Reduce is dead, long live Spark! That’s the impression I, and I think most people attending the conference, walked away with after Strata NY 2014. Most of the interesting presentations were centered on Spark. Only corporate IT presentations about “in progress hadoop implementations” were about Map Reduce. So who’s working on Spark? Cool startups…
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I had a chance to attend Strata in New York back in October. I had been wanting to attend Strata for a few years, but had not had a chance until now. A few impressions: (in the form of brief bullets) It’s huge! (Over 3,000 attendees) Very corporate! (A bit too corporate, too stuffy, seemed like legal departments censored…
