Spark in Action
eBook - ePub

Spark in Action

  1. 472 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Spark in Action

About this book

Summary Spark in Action teaches you the theory and skills you need to effectively handle batch and streaming data using Spark. Fully updated for Spark 2.0.Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology 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. About the Book Spark in Action 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. What's Inside

  • Updated for Spark 2.0
  • Real-life case studies
  • Spark DevOps with Docker
  • Examples in Scala, and online in Java and Python


About the Reader Written for experienced programmers with some background in big data or machine learning. About the Authors Petar Ze?evi? and Marko Bona?i are seasoned developers heavily involved in the Spark community. Table of Contents

PART 1 - FIRST STEPS

  • Introduction to Apache Spark
  • Spark fundamentals
  • Writing Spark applications
  • The Spark API in depth

PART 2 - MEET THE SPARK FAMILY

  • Sparkling queries with Spark SQL
  • Ingesting data with Spark Streaming
  • Getting smart with MLlib
  • ML: classification and clustering
  • Connecting the dots with GraphX

PART 3 - SPARK OPS

  • Running Spark
  • Running on a Spark standalone cluster
  • Running on YARN and Mesos

PART 4 - BRINGING IT TOGETHER

  • Case study: real-time dashboard
  • Deep learning on Spark with H2O

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Table of contents

  1. Copyright
  2. Brief Table of Contents
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. About this Book
  7. About the Authors
  8. About the Cover
  9. Part 1. First steps
  10. Part 2. Meet the Spark family
  11. Part 3. Spark ops
  12. Part 4. Bringing it together
  13. Appendix A. Installing Apache Spark
  14. Appendix B. Understanding MapReduce
  15. Appendix C. A primer on linear algebra
  16. Index
  17. List of Figures
  18. List of Tables
  19. List of Listings