Apache Spark has become the de facto standard for processing data at scale, whether for querying large datasets, training machine learning models to predict future trends, or processing streaming data ...

Java 8 shows signs of rapid adoption since its launch. A report by Typesafe, the company responsible for the development and support of the Scala language for the JVM, shows that the platform does not ...

Apache Spark with Java 8 is proving to be the perfect match for Big Data. Spark 1.0 was just released this May, and it’s already surpassed Hadoop in popularity on the Web. Java 8, the latest version, ...