Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Data Engineering with Scala and Spark

You're reading from   Data Engineering with Scala and Spark Build streaming and batch pipelines that process massive amounts of data using Scala

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804612583
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Authors (3):
Arrow left icon
Rupam Bhattacharjee Rupam Bhattacharjee
Author Profile Icon Rupam Bhattacharjee
Rupam Bhattacharjee
David Radford David Radford
Author Profile Icon David Radford
David Radford
Eric Tome Eric Tome
Author Profile Icon Eric Tome
Eric Tome
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Introduction to Data Engineering, Scala, and an Environment Setup
2. Chapter 1: Scala Essentials for Data Engineers FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Environment Setup 4. Part 2 – Data Ingestion, Transformation, Cleansing, and Profiling Using Scala and Spark
5. Chapter 3: An Introduction to Apache Spark and Its APIs – DataFrame, Dataset, and Spark SQL 6. Chapter 4: Working with Databases 7. Chapter 5: Object Stores and Data Lakes 8. Chapter 6: Understanding Data Transformation 9. Chapter 7: Data Profiling and Data Quality 10. Part 3 – Software Engineering Best Practices for Data Engineering in Scala
11. Chapter 8: Test-Driven Development, Code Health, and Maintainability 12. Chapter 9: CI/CD with GitHub 13. Part 4 – Productionalizing Data Engineering Pipelines – Orchestration and Tuning
14. Chapter 10: Data Pipeline Orchestration 15. Chapter 11: Performance Tuning 16. Part 5 – End-to-End Data Pipelines
17. Chapter 12: Building Batch Pipelines Using Spark and Scala 18. Chapter 13: Building Streaming Pipelines Using Spark and Scala 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding GitHub Actions

GitHub provides a wide range of tools and features to support CI/CD workflows. It offers a powerful marketplace of pre-built CI/CD actions, allowing developers to easily integrate popular tools and services into their workflows. GitHub Actions also enables the creation of custom workflows using YAML-based configuration files, providing flexibility and control over the entire CI/CD pipeline. By leveraging these tools, developers can automate code formatting, run unit tests, perform code reviews, and deploy applications seamlessly.

The following sections introduce the components of GitHub Actions with a running example.

Workflows

Workflows are the top-level objects under GitHub Actions. They provide a logical grouping of all of the jobs that you plan to run as part of the CI/CD pipeline and have associated trigger events. These are defined in the .gihub/workflows/ directory in your project root folder. A typical workflow looks like the following...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at €18.99/month. Cancel anytime