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Hands-On Deep Learning with Apache Spark

By : Guglielmo Iozzia
Book Image

Hands-On Deep Learning with Apache Spark

By: Guglielmo Iozzia

Overview of this book

Deep learning is a subset of machine learning where datasets with several layers of complexity can be processed. Hands-On Deep Learning with Apache Spark addresses the sheer complexity of technical and analytical parts and the speed at which deep learning solutions can be implemented on Apache Spark. The book starts with the fundamentals of Apache Spark and deep learning. You will set up Spark for deep learning, learn principles of distributed modeling, and understand different types of neural nets. You will then implement deep learning models, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and long short-term memory (LSTM) on Spark. As you progress through the book, you will gain hands-on experience of what it takes to understand the complex datasets you are dealing with. During the course of this book, you will use popular deep learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow, Deeplearning4j, and Keras to train your distributed models. By the end of this book, you'll have gained experience with the implementation of your models on a variety of use cases.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Appendix A: Functional Programming in Scala
Appendix B: Image Data Preparation for Spark

Streaming data with Kafka and Spark

Spark Streaming with Kafka is a common combination of technologies in data pipelines. This section will present some examples of streaming Kafka with Spark.

Apache Kakfa

Apache Kafka (http://kafka.apache.org/) is an open source message broker written in Scala. Originally, it was developed by LinkedIn, but it was then released as open source in 2011 and is currently maintained by the Apache Software Foundation.

Here are some of the reasons why you might prefer Kafka to a traditional JMS message broker:

  • It's fast: A single Kafka broker running on commodity hardware can handle hundreds of megabytes of reads and writes per second from thousands of clients
  • Great scalability: It can be easily...