Tag: Accelerating

Accelerating Spark: Databricks Photon Runtime

Databricks is a ~$40B company built around the open-source distributed computation engine Apache Spark. Their core offering is a high-level interface that allows organizations to utilize Spark without incurring the operational costs of managing Spark clusters. Databricks’ clusters use the&nbsp...

You Can Jump Like a Superhero — If You Are In an Accelerating Frame

Newton’s Laws in Accelerated Reference Frames If we want to figure out what’s going on here, we need to think about Newton’s 2nd Law and how it works in different reference frames. First, we have the 2nd law. This gives a relationship between the net force on an object and that ...