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Originally created at U.C. Berkeley’s AMPLab in 2009, Apache Spark is a “lightning-fast unified analytics engine” designed for large-scale data processing. It works with cluster computing platforms ...

Apache Cassandra™ is a massively scalable NoSQL database. Cassandra’s technical roots can be found at companies recognized for their ability to effectively manage big data – Google, Amazon, and ...

Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most important frontiers in software. The basic idea—how to consume and generate human language effectively—has been an ongoing effort since the dawn of ...