Spark in Action 2nd Ed (Manning)
Wednesday, 10 June 2020

While this book is a second edition, it isn't really. It's a new book covering Apache Spark 3 from a different author and is designed to show how to create end-to-end analytics applications. Author Jean-Georges Perrin has based the book around interesting Java-based examples, including a complete data pipeline for processing NASA satellite data. Java, Python, and Scala code samples hosted on GitHub accompany the book. 

 

Author: Jean-Georges Perrin
Publisher: Manning
Date: June 2020
Pages: 576
ISBN: 978-1617295522
Print: 1617295523
Audience: Java developers interested in Spark
Level: Intermediate
Category: Data Science

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