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Apache Spark Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Apache Spark Quick Start Guide Quickly learn the art of writing efficient big data applications with Apache Spark

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Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789349108
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Akash Grade is a data engineer living in New Delhi, India. Akash graduated with a BSc in computer science from the University of Delhi in 2011, and later earned an MSc in software engineering from BITS Pilani. He spends most of his time designing highly scalable data pipeline using big-data solutions such as Apache Spark, Hive, and Kafka. Akash is also a Databricks-certified Spark developer. He has been working on Apache Spark for the last five years, and enjoys writing applications in Python, Go, and SQL.
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Shrey Mehrotra has over 8 years of IT experience and, for the past 6 years, has been designing the architecture of cloud and big-data solutions for the finance, media, and governance sectors. Having worked on research and development with big-data labs and been part of Risk Technologies, he has gained insights into Hadoop, with a focus on Spark, HBase, and Hive. His technical strengths also include Elasticsearch, Kafka, Java, YARN, Sqoop, and Flume. He likes spending time performing research and development on different big-data technologies. He is the coauthor of the books Learning YARN and Hive Cookbook, a certified Hadoop developer, and he has also written various technical papers.
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Preface 1. Introduction to Apache Spark 2. Apache Spark Installation FREE CHAPTER 3. Spark RDD 4. Spark DataFrame and Dataset 5. Spark Architecture and Application Execution Flow 6. Spark SQL 7. Spark Streaming, Machine Learning, and Graph Analysis 8. Spark Optimizations 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

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This chapter has helped you install Java, Scala, and Spark on a Linux machine that has been procured from an AWS EC2 instance. You can now use the same setup to execute the queries/examples that are provided in other chapters of this book.

In the next chapter, you will learn about the basic unit of Spark, which is RDD. RDD refers to an immutable Resilient Distributed Dataset, on which we can apply further actions and transformations.

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Shrey Mehrotra has over 8 years of IT experience and, for the past 6 years, has been designing the architecture of cloud and big-data solutions for the finance, media, and governance sectors. Having worked on research and development with big-data labs and been part of Risk Technologies, he has gained insights into Hadoop, with a focus on Spark, HBase, and Hive. His technical strengths also include Elasticsearch, Kafka, Java, YARN, Sqoop, and Flume. He likes spending time performing research and development on different big-data technologies. He is the coauthor of the books Learning YARN and Hive Cookbook, a certified Hadoop developer, and he has also written various technical papers.
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