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Kotlin API for Apache Spark 1.0 Released

The Kotlin API for Apache Spark is now widely available. This is the first stable release of the API that we consider to be feature-complete with respect to the user experience and compatibility with core Spark APIs. Get on Maven Central Let’s take a look at the new features this release brings to the API. Typed select and sortMore column functionsMore KeyValueGroupedDataset wrapper funct

Pasha Finkelshteyn Pasha Finkelshteyn

Kotlin for Apache Spark: One Step Closer to Your Production Cluster

We have released Preview 2 of Kotlin for Apache Spark. First of all, we’d like to thank the community for providing us with all their feedback and even some pull requests! Now let’s take a look at what we have implemented since Preview 1? Scala 2.11 and Spark 2.4.1+ support The main change in this preview is the introduction of Spark 2.4 and Scala 2.11 support. This means that you can now run jobs

Pasha Finkelshteyn Pasha Finkelshteyn

Making Kotlin Ready for Data Science

This year at KotlinConf 2019, Roman Belov gave an overview on Kotlin's approach to data science. Now that the talk is available for everyone to see, we decided to recap it and share a bit more on the current state of Kotlin tools and libraries for data science. How does Kotlin fit data science? Following the need to analyze large amounts of data, the last few years has brought a true renaissance

Andrey Cheptsov Andrey Cheptsov