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,…
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Spark Ecosystem & Spark Streaming Fundamentals
This is a re-post from Spark Ecosystem & Spark Streaming Fundamentals post on the Concur blog. For the March 2015 Seattle Spark Meetup group convened for our monthly meeting. It was a special meeting since it was actually a joint Seattle Spark Meetup and Pacific Northwest Cloudera User Group session held at the Concur Technologies headquarters in Bellevue. We had special guest speakers, Mike Olson (@mikeolson) and Hari Shreedharan (@harisr1234), whose presentations discussed the basics of Spark and Spark Streaming as well as the Spark ecosystem, specifically, Cloudera’s investments into it. For those who missed it, we’re sharing Mike and…