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Apache Spark for the Impatient

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Below is a list of the most important topics in Spark that everyone who does not have the time to go through an entire book but wants to discover the amazing power of this distributed computing…

Beginner’s Guide to Apache Spark

Level Up Coding

The company founded by the creators of Spark — Databricks — summarizes its functionality best in their Gentle Intro to Apache Spark eBook (highly recommended read — link to PDF download provided at…

Getting started with Apache Spark — Part 1

Analytics Vidhya

In this era of big data where mind-boggling amount of data are being created every minute, it is becoming increasingly important for businesses to analyze these data for quick insights. This has…

Getting Started with Apache Spark

Towards Data Science

Medium Article on the Architecture of Apache Spark. Implementation of some CORE APIs in java with code. Memory and performance tuning for better running jobs.

A Beginner’s Guide to Apache Spark

Towards Data Science

The company founded by the creators of Spark — Databricks — summarizes its functionality best in their Gentle Intro to Apache Spark eBook (highly recommended read - link to PDF download provided at…

1. Introduction To Apache Spark

Towards Data Science

Apache Spark is a popular framework in the field of Big Data. Coming from a background of coding in Python and SQL, it didn’t take me long to get my hands on using Spark. However, without…

High Level Overview of Apache Spark

Better Programming

Spark is the cluster computing framework for large-scale data processing. Spark offers a set of libraries in 3 languages (Java, Scala, Python) for its unified computing engine.

The What, Why, and When of Apache Spark

Towards Data Science

Spark has been called a “general purpose distributed data processing engine”1 and “a lightning fast unified analytics engine for big data and machine learning”². It lets you process big data sets…

Apache Spark: A Conceptual Orientation

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Apache Spark, once part of the Hadoop ecosystem, is a powerful open-source, general-purpose distributed data-processing engine that provides real-time stream processing, interactive processing, graph…...

A n00bs guide to Apache Spark

Towards Data Science

I wrote this guide to help my self understand the basic underlying functions of Spark, where it fits in the Hadoop ecosystem and how it works in Java and Scala. I hope it helps you as much it helped…

Apache Spark with Python

Python in Plain English

What is Apache Spark? Apache Spark is an open-source processing system that is distributed and commonly utilized for dealing with large-scale data workloads. The system is designed to ensure fast anal...