Spark in Action

Spark in Action

<div><p><b>Summary</b></p> <p><i>Spark in Action</i> teaches you the theory and skills you need to effectively handle batch and streaming data using Spark. Fully updated for Spark 2.0.</p> <p>Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.</p> <p><b>About the Technology</b></p> <p>Big data systems distribute datasets across clusters of machines, making it a challenge to efficiently query, stream, and interpret them. Spark can help. It is a processing system designed specifically for distributed data. It provides easy-to-use interfaces, along with the performance you need for production-quality analytics and machine learning. Spark 2 also adds improved programming APIs, better performance, and countless other upgrades.</p> <p><b>About the Book</b></p> <p><i>Spark in Action</i> teaches you the theory and skills you need to effectively handle batch and streaming data using Spark. You'll get comfortable with the Spark CLI as you work through a few introductory examples. Then, you'll start programming Spark using its core APIs. Along the way, you'll work with structured data using Spark SQL, process near-real-time streaming data, apply machine learning algorithms, and munge graph data using Spark GraphX. For a zero-effort startup, you can download the preconfigured virtual machine ready for you to try the book's code. </p> <p><b>What's Inside</b></p> <p/><ul><li>Updated for Spark 2.0</li><li>Real-life case studies</li><li>Spark DevOps with Docker</li><li>Examples in Scala, and online in Java and Python</li></ul> <p><b>About the Reader</b></p> <p>Written for experienced programmers with some background in big data or machine learning. </p> <p><b>About the Authors</b></p> <p><b>Petar Zečević</b> and <b>Marko Bonaći</b> are seasoned developers heavily involved in the Spark community.</p> <p><b>Table of Contents</b></p> <p/><ol><h4>PART 1 - FIRST STEPS</h4><li>Introduction to Apache Spark </li><li>Spark fundamentals </li><li>Writing Spark applications</li><li>The Spark API in depth </li><h4>PART 2 - MEET THE SPARK FAMILY </h4><li>Sparkling queries with Spark SQL </li><li>Ingesting data with Spark Streaming </li><li>Getting smart with MLlib </li><li>ML: classification and clustering </li><li>Connecting the dots with GraphX </li><h4>PART 3 - SPARK OPS</h4><li>Running Spark </li><li>Running on a Spark standalone cluster </li><li>Running on YARN and Mesos</li><h4>PART 4 - BRINGING IT TOGETHER</h4><li>Case study: real-time dashboard </li><li>Deep learning on Spark with H2O </li></ol></div>