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title: Sparkling, A Clojure API for Apache Spark
description: "A fast, in-production-use clojure API for Apache Spark. See here for getting started and all sorts of guides on Sparkling and doing stuff with Apache Spark."
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    <h1>Sparkling</h1>
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    A Clojure API for Apache Spark: fast, fully-features, and developer friendly
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  <a class="btn btn-large" href="/sparkling/articles/guides.html">Read doc guides »</a>
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  Start right away by adding <code>[gorillalabs/sparkling "1.2.3"]</code> to your dependencies or by cloning the <a href="https://github.com/gorillalabs/sparkling/">Sparkling GitHub repo</a>
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    <h2>Fast</h2>
    <p> Standing on the shoulder of giants. Branching off from clj-spark and flambo, we introduced several changes to really make things fast.
      Speed of execution basically was the driver to have our own library.</p>
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    <h2>Clojuric</h2>
    <p> Sparkling provides functions to keep your fingers clean, hiding all the Scala/Java artifacts in nice, clojuric abstractions without bloating the overall system.</p>
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    <h2>Production ready</h2>
    <p>Sparkling is used in our productive environment and battle tested. Don't rely on just toy projects.</p>
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<h2>Presentations</h2>

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Do you want to have your presentation or your blog post listed here also? Just send us a note to <a href='https://twitter.com/gorillalabs_de'>@gorillalabs_de</a> or open a pull request.
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