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dmatrixon April Fools’ Day Announcements

Title: Introducing Data Brick™: The Building Block of DataBricks’ Unified Analytics Platform Link: https://databricks.com/blog/2018/04/01/introducing-data-bric...

dmatrixon Meltdown and Spectre: Exploits and Mitigation Strategies: Part 2

You can find part 1 here: https://databricks.com/blog/2018/01/13/meltdown-and-spectre-...

dmatrixon Spark Summit Is Becoming the Spark and AI Summit

We do have dedicated categories for Machine Learning. I would like to think that Spark ML subsumes those workloads, and using Spark ML, one builds machine learning applications.

Inasmuch as its broadness, we wanted to expand the summit to include AI use cases. As you know AI -> ML -> DL in the broad sense. And the categories allow submissions along those topics.

Cheers Jules

dmatrixon Microsoft makes Databricks a first-party service on Azure

Really a new day for Apache Spark now accessible to Microsoft developers to use along with all Azure cloud-native services.

dmatrixon Benchmarking Big Data SQL Platforms in the Cloud

Spark 2.2 shows some promise

dmatrixon Benchmarking Big Data SQL Platforms in the Cloud

I see loads of benefits with Spark 2.2.