Meet the 'nerdiest rock star': Matei Zaharia co-creator of Apache Spark
John Leonard talks to the Databricks CTO about why he created the fast-rising big data platform and his vision for its future
Billed by a colleague as a "truly nerdy rock star", Matei Zaharia strolls onto the stage for his keynote to whoops of appreciation from a capacity Amsterdam crowd that can only be described as excitable:...
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