Apache Spark Design Patterns - Using Scala #0

Apache Spark supports both batch and streaming analysis, meaning you can use a single framework for your batch processing as well as your near real time use cases. And Spark introduces a fantastic functional programming model, which is arguably better suited for data analysis than Hadoop’s Map/Reduce API

This blog series attempts to find out if the common set of use cases can be solved using Spark.
The use-cases are based on 

http://oreil.ly/mapreduce-design-patterns
“MapReduce Design Patterns by Donald Miner and Adam Shook (O’Reilly). Copyright 2013 Donald Miner and Adam Shook, 978-1-449-32717-0.”


The Hardware and Software stack used