Apache Spark 2 with Scala - Hands On with Big Data!

Spark works best when using the Scala programming language, and this course includes a crash-course in Scala to get you up to speed quickly. For those more familiar with Python however, a Python version of this class is also available: "Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python - Hands On".

Learn and master the art of framing data analysis problems as Spark problems through over 20 hands-on examples, and then scale them up to run on cloud computing services in this course.

• Learn the concepts of Spark's Resilient Distributed Datastores

• Get a crash course in the Scala programming language

• Develop and run Spark jobs quickly using Scala

• Translate complex analysis problems into iterative or multi-stage Spark scripts

• Scale up to larger data sets using Amazon's Elastic MapReduce service

• Understand how Hadoop YARN distributes Spark across computing clusters

• Practice using other Spark technologies, like Spark SQL, DataFrames, DataSets, Spark Streaming, and GraphX

  Who this course is for:
  • Software engineers who want to expand their skills into the world of big data processing on a cluster
  • If you have no previous programming or scripting experience, you'll want to take an introductory programming course first.