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The book describes clearly and systematically the spark architecture and has a lot of outstanding examplesthat help the reader ... Read More
There isn't a resource out there that covers the spark toolset as well -- with the same level of depth and coverage in a way th... Read More
Beginning with the tail end of chapter 1 (what is apache spark), where the authors indicate that the majority of this book was ... Read More
If you are new to apache spark, these three texts will help enable your going in the right direction, although keep in mind tha... Read More
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As for now, rest assured that until either the second edition of this text or a competitor text is published, you are likely to... Read More
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This is a great beginner to intermediate book on Spark.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Reading these books in opposite order of publication date enabled exposure to more current material sooner rather than later, but this was largely just a coincidence.
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My mistake was to read through the material in the book first and then work through the notebooks, leading me to discover that since the notebooks provide no context, i ended up revisiting pertinent content in the text.
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Sure, this may have helped solidify some of the material for me, but i wouldn't want anyone to make the same mistake.
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While there are good reasons for the authors to have done so, readers should be aware that other languages such as r are simply not covered.
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
As far as scala is concerned, well, spark is primarily written in scala and is spark's default language.
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Beginning with the tail end of chapter 1 (what is apache spark), where the authors indicate that the majority of this book was written using spark 2.
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