The Spark

Watch this ongoing compilation of Spark talks from leading developers and practicioners at Strata + Hadoop World conferences in 2016 (including San Jose, London, Beijing, New York, and Singapore). Throughout the year we'll update the stream of talks covering the latest trends in Spark for real-time analytics and machine learning, as well as tips on how to deploy Spark in production. Topics range from Spark 2.0, anomaly detection with Spark, training deep networks in Spark, and tips for securing and scaling Spark in production.

On their new album “Closer to Paradise” Spark, the Classical Band, form a unique partnership with the internationally acclaimed countertenor Valer Sabadus to produce, in musical form, a feeling of longing, that wonderful, painful yet bitter-sweet emotional state ’twixt melancholy and happiness. The spectrum of works ranges from the classical masters such as Antonio Vivaldi, Robert Schumann, Gabriel Fauré, Erik Satie and Kurt Weill through to French chansonnier Leo Ferré, Italian cantautore Lucio Dalla, American singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, British synth-rock-group Depeche Mode and the German cult band Rammstein. Rounded off with some compositions by the Spark musicians themselves, the pieces blend into an aural study of emotions, the fruit of an exciting musical collaboration and a consistently thrilling recording project.