Best of 2014

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2014. 184 posts.

Databases & Data
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Apache Spark: The Next Big Data Thing?

Apache Spark is generating quite some buzz right now. Databricks, the company founded to support Spark raised $14M from Andreessen Horowitz, Cloudera has decided to fully support Spark, and others chime in that it's the next big thing. So I thought it's high time I took a look to get an understanding what the whole…