This was a talk I gave at STL Clojure on Tuesday, March 21, AD 2017.
In this talk, I'll give a basic introduction to Powderkeg, a new library to make working with Apache Spark in Clojure a lot more enjoyable.
- The talk's slides in PDF
- My personal website, cgore.com
- The Climate Corporation: https://www.climate.com
- Clojure: http://clojure.org
- Powderkeg: https://github.com/HCADatalab/powderkeg
- Apache Spark: http://spark.apache.org
- Powderkeg: Teaching Clojure to Spark (Clojure/conj 2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxUHgP4Ox5Q
- clj-spark: https://github.com/TheClimateCorporation/clj-spark
- Flambo: https://github.com/yieldbot/flambo
- Good business/manager level overview of Apache Spark: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/11/209116-apache-spark/fulltext