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Apache Spark 2.x for Java Developers

By : Sourav Gulati, Sumit Kumar
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Apache Spark 2.x for Java Developers

By: Sourav Gulati, Sumit Kumar

Overview of this book

Apache Spark is the buzzword in the big data industry right now, especially with the increasing need for real-time streaming and data processing. While Spark is built on Scala, the Spark Java API exposes all the Spark features available in the Scala version for Java developers. This book will show you how you can implement various functionalities of the Apache Spark framework in Java, without stepping out of your comfort zone. The book starts with an introduction to the Apache Spark 2.x ecosystem, followed by explaining how to install and configure Spark, and refreshes the Java concepts that will be useful to you when consuming Apache Spark's APIs. You will explore RDD and its associated common Action and Transformation Java APIs, set up a production-like clustered environment, and work with Spark SQL. Moving on, you will perform near-real-time processing with Spark streaming, Machine Learning analytics with Spark MLlib, and graph processing with GraphX, all using various Java packages. By the end of the book, you will have a solid foundation in implementing components in the Spark framework in Java to build fast, real-time applications.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

About the Reviewer

Prashant Verma started his IT carrier in 2011 as a Java developer in Ericsson working in telecom domain. After couple of years of JAVA EE experience, he moved into Big Data domain, and has worked on almost all the popular big data technologies, such as Hadoop, Spark, Flume, Mongo, Cassandra,etc. He has also played with Scala. Currently, He works with QA Infotech as Lead Data Enginner, working on solving e-Learning problems using analytics and machine learning.

Prashant has also worked on Apache Spark 2.x for Java Developers, Packt as a Technical Reviewer.

I want to thank Packt Publishing for giving me the chance to review the book as well as my employer and my family for their patience while I was busy working on this book.