Spark gathers steam with 2.1 release

Apache Spark continues to grow with its recent release of Spark 2.1 and the increasing popularity of Spark Streaming for data analytics. With a diverse mix of developer and enterprise presentations, last week’s Spark Summit East showed that Spark is a critical element to many solutions around scalability issues. Data scientists, engineers, developers, and business users can all benefit from understanding Spark’s strengths and limitations, which were candidly discussed by professionals from many fields and backgrounds.