Are you tired of struggling with your existing data analytic applications? When MapReduce first emerged it was a great boon to the big data world, but modern big data processing demands have outgrown this framework. That’s where Apache Spark steps in, boasting speeds 10-100x faster than Hadoop and setting the world record in large scale sorting. Spark’s general abstraction means it can expand beyond simple batch processing, making it capable of such things as blazing-fast, iterative algorithms and exactly once streaming semantics. This combined with it’s interactive shell make it a powerful tool useful for everybody, from data tinkerers to data scientists to data developers.