Why Big Data Needs to be Functional by Dean Wampler.
Slides from Dean Wampler’s keynote at NEScala 2012.
I won’t spoil the ending for you so suffice it to say that functional programming is said to be relevant for big data tasks. 😉
Is looking at “big data” as “functional” saying that use of “big data” needs to be pluralistic?
That the cost of acquiring, cleaning, maintaining, etc., “big data” is big (sorry) enough that re-use is a real value?
Such that changing data that has already been gathered, cleaned, reconciled, i.e., imperative processing, is simply unthinkable?
Perhaps read-only access is the new norm, to protect your investment in “big data.”