Spark: from interactivity to production and back [ua]

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Going from experiment to deployed prototype as fast as possible in a dynamic startup environment is invaluable. Being able to respond quickly to changes not less important.

From interactive ad-hoc analysis to production applications with Spark and back - this is a story of one spirited engineer trying to make his life a little easier and a little more efficient while wrangling the data, writing Scala code, deploying Spark applications. The problems faced, the lessons learned, the options found and some smart solutions and ideas - this is what we will go through.