While the new Spark Developer training from Cloudera University is valuable for developers who are new to Big Data, it’s also a great call for MapReduce veterans. When I set out to learn Apache Spark (which ships inside Cloudera’s open source platform) about six months ago, I started where many other people do: by following the various online tutorials available from UC Berkeley’s AMPLab, the creators of Spark. I quickly developed an appreciation for the elegant, Read more