Spark: The Definitive Guide

Matei Zaharia & Bill Chambers

Language: English

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Published: Feb 8, 2018

Description:

Learn how to use, deploy, and maintain Apache Spark with this comprehensive guide, written by some of the creators of this open-source cluster-computing framework. With an emphasis on improvements and new features in Spark 2.0, authors Bill Chambers and Matei Zaharia break down Spark topics into distinct sections, each with unique goals. You’ll explore the basic operations and common functions of Spark’s structured APIs, as well as Structured Streaming, a new high-level API for building end-to-end streaming applications. Developers and system administrators will learn the fundamentals of monitoring, tuning, and debugging Spark, and explore machine learning techniques and scenarios for employing MLlib, Spark’s scalable machine learning library.