For the last few years, I have had the opportunity to work on some of the coolest Apache Spark committers, contributors, and projects.  As luck would have it, I got the opportunity to meet my co-author Tomasz Drabas (author of the awesome Practical Data Analysis Cookbook) while we were solving some other cool Apache Spark projects.  In the process, we joined forces to share our lessons learned that will hopefully help you jump start your Python and Apache Spark projects with our book: Learning PySpark. And just to make sure, this book was reviewed by the incomparable Holden Karau, author of the…