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Leibert: Writing Visual Basic is more joyful than writing Go applications
“And frankly, it's more joyful to write Visual Basic than it is to write Go, right? That you actually achieve Business results. I mean, seriously, right? Like, writing a Spark job, you see the output right away, whereas if you write a large Go application, I me…”
Hirasaki: Spark acquisition vaulted Roche forward in gene therapy platform technology
“And then with the Spark acquisition same thing BMS, I'm sorry Roche was a laggard in the space, and now suddenly leaped ahead with not only a marketed gene therapy, but this AAV platform that it could use for delivering other gene therapies.”
Stanek: Business users prefer spreadsheet interfaces over Spark and Hadoop
“Some of the most frequently used kind of data analytics tools extremely basic, because they actually look and feel like sheet of paper, like two-dimensional sheet of paper, and you know, so that's the problem with analytics, that on one hand, we have, you know…”
Moghe: Spark and Hadoop do not replace existing data warehouses
“Spark doesn't subsume data warehousing. Hadoop doesn't subsume, you know, streaming. So they're just like different technologies for different jobs.”
Zaharia: Apache Spark is the most active open-source data processing project
“It's actually the most active open source project in data processing in general as far as we can tell.”
Nguyen: Apache Spark Would Have Failed Earlier Due to Memory Costs
“Now Spark, if it was created six, five, six years before its time would have completely failed because memory was so much more expensive.”
Hirasaki: Roche Allows Acquired Companies Like Spark to Operate Semi-Autonomously
“Some big pharma companies will just tend to fully integrate the company whereas others will like Roche and Spark will allow the acquired companies to operate semi-autonomously.”
Zaharia: Apache Spark is easier to use than prior big data systems
“So Spark is software for processing large volumes of data on a cluster, and the things that make it unique are, first of all, it has a very powerful programming model that lets you do many kinds of advanced analytics and processing, such as machine learning or…”