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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.