Over the last few years, SpringSource has been really pushing more modular projects in the Big Data and Cloud arena. There are projects being spun up to resolve complex issues and make life easier for developers as a whole often at the ease of making most of such development needs accessible freely. Some of the solid new projects that have come on are Spring XD, Spring Data, Spring YARN, Spring Hadoop, and Spring Batch. They all attempt to resolve context specific issues via separation of concerns and incorporate more in way of developer productivity.
