Getting started

In this section, we will talk about setting up an implementation infrastructure or using the existing infrastructure from previous chapters. The following upgrades to your infrastructure are optional but recommended. 

Starting in Chapter 3, Stock Price Predictions, we set up the Hortonworks Development Platform (HDP) Sandbox as a virtual machine. That said, three kinds of (isolated) HDP Sandbox deployments are possible. Of the three, we will only talk about two of them and those are:

• Virtual machine environment (with Hypervisor) for Sandbox deployment: HDP Sandbox running in an Oracle VirtualBox virtual machine.
• A cloud-based environment for Sandbox deployment: This option is attractive for users that have host machine memory limitations. The Sandbox runs in the cloud as opposed to a virtual machine that runs on your host machine.

With that opening point made, you can always run the fraud detection system code on the Spark shell. You have two options here:

• Use Simple Build Tool...