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Accelerating Spark workloads on Amazon EMR with Windjammer’s Spark plug-in

Aws Marketplace AWS Marketplace Senior Analytics Specialist Solution Architect Recommends Subscribing to Windjammer EMR Accelerator...

AWS Award: Finalist, 2021 AWS Startup Architecture of the Year Competition

EMR + Windjammer Spark Accelerator Industry leading SQL query throughput per vCPU = Transparent Acceleration and Reduction in Slaves Why...

Why Windjammer?

In their day, schooners were the fastest ships on the sea. They were prized for their ability to carry large loads. Schooners...

Kai Rothauge: AI Summit 2022

Kai Rothauge is CTO at Windjammer Technologies where he leads Spark Native Execution and cloud store checkpoint fault tolerance. Prior to...

What drives Disaggregated Computing?

The separation of the physical computer systems responsible for performing computational work (collectively known as “compute nodes”) and...

Should we use HDFS or a cloud store for our Data Lakes when deploying in a public cloud?

We have found that HDFS is primarily used on premise with dedicated servers. As we discussed earlier, decoupling storage and compute is...