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Using AWS Lambda and Slack to have fun while saving on EMR costs

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We all have these times where we hack a piece of code together in 5 minutes. Usually, these pieces of code are not hidden gems, they tend to do simple stuff. Every once in a while though, you will find yourself writing a simple script which gives you a big smile afterwards. In this post, I will discuss one of »

Upload your local Spark script to an AWS EMR cluster using a simple Python script

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Apache Spark is definitely one of the hottest topics in the Data Science community at the moment. Last month when we visited PyData Amsterdam 2016 we witnessed a great example of Spark's immense popularity. The speakers at PyData talking about Spark had the largest crowds after all. Sometimes we see that these popular topics are slowly transforming in buzzwords that »