The Bins and Balls Problem: A Computer Science Fundamental What Is the Bins and Balls Problem? The bins and balls problem is elegantly simple: If you have m balls and n bins, and you place each ...

In the previous post, I compared Spark with MapReduce programming model. In this post I will look in detail the RDD interface in Apache Spark and how to extend it to suit our needs by looking at ex...

You might have heard that Spark recently broke the previous record for sort benchmark. That drove lot of attention towards Spark. In this post, I will be explaining briefly what is Spark and advant...