SCALA & SPARK for Managing & Analyzing BIG DATA In this blog, we’ll explore how to use Scala and Spark to manage and analyze Big Data effectively. When I first entered the Big Data world, Hadoop was the primary tool. As I discussed in my previous blogs: [What’s so BIG about Big Data (Published in 2013)] [Apache Hadoop 2.7.2 on macOS Sierra (Published in 2016)] Since then, Spark has emerged as a powerful tool, especially for applications where speed (or “Velocity”) is essential in processing data. We’ll focus on how Spark, combined with Scala, addresses the “Velocity” aspect of Big…