Big Data Analytics with Spark: A Practitioner’s Guide to Using Spark for Large-Scale Data Processing, Machine Learning, and Graph Analytics, and High-Velocity Data Stream Processing

Acknowledgments

Many people have contributed to this book directly or indirectly. Without the support, encouragement, and help that I received from various people, it would have not been possible for me to write this book. I would like to take this opportunity to thank those people.

First and foremost, I would like to thank my beautiful wife, Tarannum, and my three amazing kids, Sarah, Soha, and Sohail. Writing a book is an arduous task. Working full-time and writing a book at the same time meant that I was not spending much time with my family. During work hours, I was busy with work. Evenings and weekends were completely consumed by the book. I thank my family for providing me all the support and encouragement. Occasionally, Soha and Sohail ...