@Jey, I'm willing to help, but I need some initial guidance. Please, check 
out issues tab in Spock.jl.

On Monday, May 25, 2015 at 7:05:01 AM UTC+3, Jey Kottalam wrote:
>
> Viral -- Given the clear interest in it, I'll work toward fleshing it 
> out more fully. However, if anyone is interested in contributing I'd 
> gladly take the help. 
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Viral Shah <vi...@mayin.org <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > Jey - just checking if you are listing what the project needs - or if 
> you would be able to participate to build these? 
> > 
> > -viral 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> On 23-May-2015, at 7:54 am, Jey Kottalam <j...@cs.berkeley.edu 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> >> 
> >> The core functionality is there, but there's also more to be 
> >> implemented to have a complete interface to spark-core: 
> >> 
> >> - distributed I/O 
> >> - broadcast vars 
> >> - accumulator vars 
> >> - custom partitioners 
> >> - persistence (caching) 
> >> - missing transforms and actions 
> >> 
> >> -Jey 
> >> 
> >> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:46 AM, Jeff Waller <trut...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> On Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 4:55:16 PM UTC-4, Jey Kottalam wrote: 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Hi Jeff, 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> they relied on a 3rd party to containerize  a Pythonprogram for 
> >>>>> transmission 
> >>>> 
> >>>> That is due to the pecularities of Python's serialization module than 
> >>>> anything intrinsic to creating a Spark binding. (E.g. Python's pickle 
> >>>> format doesn't have support for serializing code and closures, so 
> some 
> >>>> extra code was required.) This isn't an issue in Julia since 
> >>>> Base.serialize() already has the needed functionality. An initial 
> >>>> implementation of a Spark binding done in the same style as PySpark 
> is 
> >>>> available at http://github.com/jey/Spock.jl 
> >>>> 
> >>>> -Jey 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Hey awesome.  Initial you say, what's missing? 
> > 
>

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