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Spark for Java Developers

Big Data with Java Lambdas!

The course is 6 hours long and would be equivalent to a 3 day training course.

  • Get started with the amazing Apache Spark parallel computing framework - this course is designed especially for Java Developers
  • All of the fundamentals you need to understand the main operations you can perform in Spark Core.
  • Deploy to a live EMR hardware cluster.
  • Understand the internals of Spark and how it optimizes your execution plans.
  • Get some great practice with Java 8 Lambdas - our most "functional" course to date!
  • There will be a follow on module covering SparkSQL later in the year.
You'll need to be familar with Java. We'll be using Lamdbas throughout, but this course is a good introduction to them if you're not familar with them already.

Contents

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Introduction 16m 56s

A brief overview of Spark and some of the jargon terms you'll be encountering.

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Getting Started 21m 35s

Let's get Spark "installed" - it's just a maven dependency.

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Reduces 14m 19s

Reduces are fundamental transformations. Here we'll do a very basic reduce to establish the idea.

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Update - problems with NotSerializableExceptions? 6m 28s

If, in the next chapter on "Mapping" (or any future chapters) you experience a NotSerializableException, it is because your CPU architecture is sophisticated enough for Spark to treat each CPU as a node in a cluster! But this causes a crash with System.out.println. See this video for a simple workaround.

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Mapping 17m 45s

Mapping allows you transform the RDD from one form to another.

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Tuples 18m 12s

Commonly used in Scala, Tuples appear everywhere in the Spark Core API. We can use them in Java, but they are a bit awkward.

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PairRDDs 41m 30s

A PairRDD is a key/value representation of a dataset.

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FlatMap and Filtering 14m 46s

FlatMaps look complicated but it's a simple transformation. Also we'll see how to filter.

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Reading Files 13m 26s

We can read local files, or from S3 or HDFS big data file systems.

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Keyword Ranking 41m 47s

A major exercise, we'll automatically generate keywords for training courses based on their subtitle files.

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Sorts and Coalesces 28m 44s

There are some misunderstandings with sorts and we'll address that here. Also - what is Coalesce used for (and when it shouldn't be used).

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Deploying to EMR 40m 42s

We'll now deploy to a live cluster. Spark can deploy to Hadoop Yarn clusters or you can build a standalone cluster. Here we use Amazon EMR. Even if you're not using EMR, do watch this chapter as there is a lot to learn from running on real hardware.

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Joins 27m 27s

One last transformation type on the course - how to do Inner, Outer, Full and Cartesian Joins.

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Big Data Big Exercise 51m 35s

A chance for you to practice everything - a real "course ranking" process we run here at VirtualPairProgrammers.

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Performance 80m 8s

A deeper look into the internals of Spark.

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