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The start of a series where I lay out my criticism of App.net and other startups via their power and control over the web.

I submitted a version of this a few weeks back, and it got semi-ignored. I'm now blogging with Svbtle, and since we've had an influx of traffic due to the HN thing, I figured I'd post it again. If this isn't appropriate, feel free to let me know. :)

Spark is a MapReduce-like cluster computing framework designed for low-latency iterative jobs and interactive use from an interpreter (think about sequences of map, filter, reduce). It can load data from any Hadoop InputFormat, and can run on Apache Mesos or in standalone mode.