[Announce] New OSS Project: Sparkour

[Brian Uri!]

Hello everyone,

I have started a new open-source project. Sparkour is an open-source collection of programming recipes for Apache Spark. Designed as an efficient way to navigate the intricacies of the Spark ecosystem, Sparkour aims to be an approachable, understandable, and actionable cookbook for distributed data processing. Sparkour delivers extended tutorials for developers new to Spark as well as shorter, standalone recipes that address common developer needs in Java, Python, R, and Scala. The entire trove is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

I have no intent to sunset DDMSence and will continue to support it for as long as people find it useful. The fact that the DDMS specification has not been funded since 2013 has limited my my new development options, so it was simply time to try something new. Also, this will be the only crosspost spam between the two projects.

Thanks for your continued support!
BU