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Early Apache Spark was so unstable that clusters crashed within two hours
“At the time we made that bet, Spark was barely working. I mean, seriously. It was a really promising technology, very complete programming model. We loved the fact it was in memory, but we couldn't find a single customer that could keep their cluster running f…”
Talend partnered with Google to transition Dataflow into Apache Beam
“We talked to Google, and they had open sourced a part of that, and said, would you be willing to make that an Apache project, and, you know, co-sponsor it with us, and so we can now jointly push this thing forward? And they said yes, and we did. And so that be…”
Over half of Talend's sales pipeline originates from free tier users
“What we find is that still today well over half of our sales opportunities come from people that are trying it out for free, right?”