<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">  Today I will give a talk of Apache Spark, a popular big data processing framework. I will mainly focus on the programming model of Spark and its core abstractions. Apache Spark is implemented in the Scala programming language and its API is somewhat similar to the Scala collection library, which are functional data structures.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">  You would understand Spark much better if you have some backgroud knowledge in Scala-lang and functional programming languages. However, I will try to make it as simple as possible. Also, I will show some demos during the talk.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Yesheng</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Resources:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Scala gentle intro: <a href="https://twitter.github.io/scala_school">https://twitter.github.io/scala_school</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Spark programming guide: <a href="http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/programming-guide.html">http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/programming-guide.html</a></div></div>