Archives Mensuelles: décembre 2014

Try Apache Spark’s shell using Docker

Ever wanted to try out Apache Spark without actually having to install anything ? Well if you’ve got Docker, I’ve got a christmas present for you, a Docker image you can pull to try and run Spark commands in the Spark shell REPL. The image has been pushed to the Docker Hub here and can be […]

Apache Spark : Memory management and Graceful degradation

Many of the concepts of Apache Spark are pretty straightforward and easy to understand, however some lucky few can be badly misunderstood. One of the greatest misunderstanding of all is the fact that some still believe that « Spark is only relevant with datasets that can fit into memory, otherwise it will crash ». This is an understanding mistake, […]