apache spark- a software which gives you great learning experience

The beauty of open source projects is that if you try to learn it , it will take you through lot of subject areas that you never heard about. Apache Spark is one of them for me. I started hearing about it when I started to follow big data&hadoop. Ok,I thought , let me install it in my ubuntu machine . I found that it is quite easy and the interesting part is that it took me through interesting subjects like ML(machine learning), Streaming,functional programming (scala) etc..

Apache Spark Machine Learning Tutorial | MapR

Apache Spark Machine Learning Tutorial | MapR

Introduction to Spark Architecture

After seeing the below video , I understood that the importance learning new programming languages. The new languages are coming with some new ideas. More than learning the new languages in the perspective of Jobs opening, those are quite interesting to know how and where the research happens to create new technologies.