Learn how at Workday, we're using Apache Spark to build predictive applications. We'll discuss how we accelerated our development and enabled a new class of applications by moving from a disk-based Hadoop platform to an all in-memory Spark-based data pipeline. We'll go over some of the common pitfalls that can affect large scale machine learning projects, particularly when using historical data sets, and how in-memory processing changes the way we reason about our application architecture.