New post on How my Data Toolset evolved in 2012: scale, speed, unlocking new data types in 2013, & props to @ben_fry http://t.co/vkpWEdul
— Ben Lorica 罗瑞卡 (@bigdata) January 1, 2013
I’m slowly following in Ben Lorica’s big data footsteps. On his recommendation I’ve decided to jump into Scala, starting with Odersky et. al.’s Programming in Scala. Like what I’m seeing so far. Functional programming, with a somewhat Pythonic sensibility, and performant exploitation of the JVM.