Preface
Spark is at the heart of the disruptive Big Data and open source software revolution. The interest in and use of Spark have grown exponentially, with no signs of abating. This book will prepare you, step by step, for a prosperous career in the Big Data analytics field.
Focus of the Book
This book focuses on the fundamentals of the Spark project, starting from the core and working outward into Spark’s various extensions, related or subprojects, and the broader ecosystem of open source technologies such as Hadoop, Kafka, Cassandra, and more.
Although the foundational understanding of Spark concepts covered in this book—including the runtime, cluster and application architecture—are language independent and agnostic, the majority of the ...
Get Data Analytics with Spark Using Python, First edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
