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Apache Spark is the word. OK, technically that's two, but it's clear that in the last year the big data processing platform has come into its own, with heavyweights like Cloudera and IBM throwing their weight and resources behind the project as we gradually say farewell to MapReduce.

We've all seen the Spark demonstrations where people write word count applications in fewer than 10 lines of code. But if you've actually dived into Spark with abandon, you might have discovered that once you start working on something larger than toy problems, some of the sheen comes off.

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