Spark is currently one of the hottest open source projects in the big data space, even eclipsing Hadoop in terms of excitement. Originally a Berkley AMPlab project, Spark became a top-level Apache project early last year and has been on a tear ever since. The company now backing Spark – Databricks…

Anyone that’s paying attention to the “big data” buzz these days is probably aware of just how hot Hadoop is right now. In fact the hype is so great, and the market so untapped, that adoption is expected to increase 25-fold over the next 5 years. Given that, it’…

If you've never come across the term "reactive programming" before, or have never heard the word "reactive" mentioned in a software development context, you may be forgiven for being in the dark on the subject. I first learned of the reactive paradigm after coming across something called the Reactive Manifesto.…