Chapter 1, The Big Data Ecosystem, provides an introduction to the current big data ecosystem. With the multitude of on-premises and cloud-based technologies, tools, services, libraries, and frameworks available in the big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning space (and growing every day!), it is vitally important to understand the logical function of each layer within the big data ecosystem so that we may understand how they integrate with each other in order to ultimately architect and engineer end-to-end data intelligence and machine learning pipelines. This chapter also provides a logical introduction to Apache Spark within the context of the wider big data ecosystem.
Chapter 2, Setting Up a Local ...
