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nchammas
flintrock
Python2016–2021
nchammas / flintrock

flintrock

A command-line tool for launching Apache Spark clusters.

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What it is

A command-line tool for launching Apache Spark clusters.

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:00:59 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-07-10 17:20:10 UTC to 2021-02-14 21:12:46 UTC.

012016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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nchammas·Jul 10, 2016
> as long as setting up a cluster is a bit easier! If you're on AWS, it's already quite easy to set up a cluster today, no? There's EMR of course, and there are tools like spark-ec2 [0] and Flintrock [1]. There are a few more tools listed on Spark Packages that target different cloud providers [2], too. Disclaimer: I am the primary author of Flintrock and am a contributor to spark-ec2. [0] https://github.com/amplab/spark-ec2 [1] https://github.com/nchammas/flintrock [2] https://spark-packages.org/?q=tags%3Adeployment
In Generating Recommendations at Amazon Scale with Apache Spark and Amazon DSSTNE

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