polkosity, have you seen the job server that Ooyala open sourced? I think it's very similar to what you're proposing with a REST API and re-using a SparkContext.
https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/pull/222 http://engineering.ooyala.com/blog/open-sourcing-our-spark-job-server On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:30 PM, polkosity <polkos...@gmail.com> wrote: > We're thinking of creating a Spark job server with a REST API, which would > enable us (as well as managing jobs) to re-use the spark context as you > suggest. Thanks Koert! > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Job-initialization-performance-of-Spark-standalone-mode-vs-YARN-tp2016p2263.html > Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >