Introduction to Apache Spark

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Introduction to Apache Spark
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Overview

Learn the basics of big data, its challenges, and the need for distributed computing frameworks like Apache Spark

Duration	1 hour
Mode of learning	Online
Difficulty level	Intermediate
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Credential	Certificate
Future job roles	CRUD, .Net, CSR, Credit risk, Senior Software Developer

Introduction to Apache Spark
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Skills you will learn

Spark NoSQL Java Hadoop Scala Data analysis Big Data

What are the course deliverables?

Describe apache spark 2.2 and the main components of a spark

Download and install apache spark 2.2

Download and install apache spark 2.2 on mac os

Build apache spark using apache maven

Use spark shell for analyzing data interactively

Link an application to spark

Identify the three locations spark provides to configure the system

Create a sparkcontext to initialize apache spark

Describe how spark runs on clusters and the three supported cluster managers

Use apache spark shell

More about this course

Apache Spark Fundamentals course introduces to the various components of the spark framework to efficiently process, visualize and analyze data

The course takes you through spark applications using Python, Scala and Java

You will also learn about the apache spark programming fundamentals like resilient distributed datasets and check which operations to be used to do a transformation operation on the RDD

This will also show you how to save and load data from different data sources like different type of files, RDBMS databases and NO-SQL

At the end of the course, you will explore effective spark application and execute it on Hadoop cluster to make informed business decisions