A Primer on Spark 2.0 Fundamentals and Architecture I’m proud to post that my O’Reilly video series Introduction to Apache Spark 2.0: A Primer on Spark 2.0 Fundamentals and Architecture is now available on O’Reilly Safari (Start your ten-day free trial) or you can purchase the video series directly. This video series highlights what’s new in Apache 2.0 and reviews its core concepts. The course starts with a high-level overview of Spark’s components and then dives into Spark 2.0’s three main themes: simplicity, speed, and intelligence. The simplicity section describes how Spark 2.0 unifies the Spark APIs and Spark session,…