Zaharia: Spark was originally designed to run Netflix Prize recommendation algorithms
Matei Zaharia · a16z Podcast | A Conversation With the Inventor of Spark · Jan 2, 2019 · at 16:41
Matei Zaharia, creator of Apache Spark and CTO of Databricks, explains how Lester Mackey's recommendation workload for the Netflix Prize was one of the initial target applications for Spark at UC Berkeley.
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“So it's actually one of the applications that I first tried to support in Spark was you know, the recommendation algorithm he was working on.”
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