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Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics

By : Md. Rezaul Karim, Sridhar Alla
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Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics

By: Md. Rezaul Karim, Sridhar Alla

Overview of this book

Scala has been observing wide adoption over the past few years, especially in the field of data science and analytics. Spark, built on Scala, has gained a lot of recognition and is being used widely in productions. Thus, if you want to leverage the power of Scala and Spark to make sense of big data, this book is for you. The first part introduces you to Scala, helping you understand the object-oriented and functional programming concepts needed for Spark application development. It then moves on to Spark to cover the basic abstractions using RDD and DataFrame. This will help you develop scalable and fault-tolerant streaming applications by analyzing structured and unstructured data using SparkSQL, GraphX, and Spark structured streaming. Finally, the book moves on to some advanced topics, such as monitoring, configuration, debugging, testing, and deployment. You will also learn how to develop Spark applications using SparkR and PySpark APIs, interactive data analytics using Zeppelin, and in-memory data processing with Alluxio. By the end of this book, you will have a thorough understanding of Spark, and you will be able to perform full-stack data analytics with a feel that no amount of data is too big.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Methods, classes, and objects in Scala

In the previous section, we saw how to work with Scala variables, different data types and their mutability and immutability, along with their usages scopes. However, in this section, to get the real flavor of the OOP concept, we are going to deal with methods, objects, and classes. These three features of Scala will help us understand the object-oriented nature of Scala and its features.

Methods in Scala

In this part, we are going to talk about methods in Scala. As you dive into Scala, you'll find that there are lots of ways to define methods in Scala. We will demonstrate them in some of these ways:

def min(x1:Int, x2:Int) : Int = {
if (x1 < x2) x1 else x2
}

The preceding declaration...