Who this book is for

Data scientists and data engineers who are new to Spark will benefit from this book. Our goal in developing this book is to give an in-depth, hands-on, end-to-end knowledge of Apache Spark 2. We have kept it simple and short so that one can get a good introduction in a short period of time. Folks who have an exposure to big data and analytics will recognize the patterns and the pragmas. Having said that, anyone who wants to understand distributed programming will benefit from working through the examples and reading the book.