There are some interesting platforms that popped up over the last few years: http://zillabyte.com/ http://zillabyte.com/ http://databricks.com/ http://databric

There are some interesting platforms that popped up over the last few years: http://zillabyte.com/ http://zillabyte.com/ http://databricks.com/ http://databricks.com/ https://yhathq.com/products/scienceops https://yhathq.com/products/scienceops The thing I'm most excited about with these platforms is seeing distributed computing become accessible to more developers. Lowering the barrier to entry (not needing to know the Hadoop ecosystem or have a PhD to do data science) can help developers answer questions their companies have and be more productive. Just my two cents.