SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 28 — Lightbend (formerly Typesafe), the company behind the Reactive Platform that includes Lagom, Play Framework, Akka, and Scala, today announced that it has been ...

We called it Machine Learning October Fest. Last week saw the nearly synchronized breakout of a number of news centered around machine learning (ML): The release of PyTorch 1.0 beta from Facebook, ...

Reactive programming company Typesafe today released a survey that confirms the high adoption rate of Apache Spark, an open source Big Data processing framework that improves traditional Hadoop-based ...

SAN FRANCISCO, June 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --Data + AI Summit -- Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced it is open-sourcing the company's core declarative ETL framework as Apache Spark™ ...

Apache Spark is arguably the hottest big data technology of the year — or maybe ever. More than 1000 enthusiasts have committed code to the open source project and almost every big data provider has ...

It’s been about three years since Apache Spark burst onto the big data scene and became one of the hottest technologies on the planet. Judging by the numbers surrounding Spark’s adoption—including ...

Databricks Inc., the primary commercial steward behind the popular open source Apache Spark data processing framework for Big Data analytics, published a new report indicating the technology is still ...

After an absence of about a year, and a stint as Research Director at the now defunct Gigaom Research, I've returned to ZDNet to cover Big Data. The year went by pretty quickly, but a number of things ...

Editor’s Note: Vaibhav Nivargi is the founder and chief architect of ClearStory Data, a data analytics service provider. This week the fast-growing Apache Spark community is gathering in New York City ...