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The Good and the Bad of Apache Spark Big Data Processing

AltexSoft

It allows data scientists to analyze large datasets and interactively run jobs on them from the R shell. Big data processing. Distributed: RDDs are distributed across the network, enabling them to be processed in parallel. Here are some of the possible use cases.

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Journey to Event Driven – Part 4: Four Pillars of Event Streaming Microservices

Confluent

Storing events in a stream and connecting streams via stream processors provide a generic, data-centric, distributed application runtime that you can use to build ETL, event streaming applications, applications for recording metrics and anything else that has a real-time data requirement. Out of the Tar Pit, 2006.

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