Apache Spark

'I've never seen anything sink as fast as Hadoop,' says Slootman

With open source filling mission-critical niches everywhere, we look at the drivers

Company wants more developers to drive adoption

UCL offshoot MediaGamma is focused on an AI layer to manage real-time bidding

We have had to embrace three things: cloud, open source and mobile and we use AI where it makes sense, says chief research officer Mainak Mazumdar

Original creator of Spark Zaharia talks about ML Flow and Project Hydrogen, two recent projects designed to make machine learning easier

'If you can have machine learning operating in real-time and in stream you really can change the way the whole business operates,' says analytics head Dan Jeavons

Energy supplier EDF and smart home vendor Toon talk data-driven services and avoiding being seen as Big Brother

Delta is intended to reduce the data cleaning grunt work inherent in developing machine learning models as well as speeding everything up

Companies believe in the promise of AI but struggle with the 'how', says David Wyatt of Databricks