Apache Spark Programming (DB 105)

This 3-day course is equally applicable to data engineers, data scientist, analysts, architects, software engineers, and technical managers interested in a thorough, hands-on overview of Apache Spark.

Retail Price: $2,500.00

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Course Days: 3


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Target Audience 

Data scientists, analysts, architects, software engineers, and technical managers with experience in machine learning who want to adapt traditional machine learning tasks to run at scale using Apache Spark.

 

Prerequisites 

  • Some familiarity with Apache Spark is helpful but not required.
  • Some familiarity with Machine Learning and Data Science concepts are highly recommended but not required.
  • Basic programming experience in an object-oriented or functional language is required. The class can be taught concurrently in Python and Scala.

Module 1: Spark Overview
Lecture

  • Databricks Overview
  • Spark Capabilities
  • Spark Ecosystem
  • Basic Spark Components

Hands-On

  • Databricks Lab Environment
  • Working with Notebooks
  • Spark Clusters and Files


Module 2: Spark SQL and DataFrames
Lecture

  • Use of Spark SQL
  • Use of DataFrames / DataSets
  • Reading from CSV, JSON, JDBC, Parquet Files & more
  • Writing Data
  • DataFrame, DataSet and SQL APIs
  • Aggregations
  • SQL Joins with DataFrames
  • Broadcasting
  • Catalyst Query Optimization
  • Tungsten
  • ETL

Hands-On

  • Creating DataFrames
  • Querying with DataFrames and SQL
  • ETL with DataFrames
  • Caching
  • Visualization


Module 3: Spark Internals
Lecture

  • Jobs, Stages and Tasks
  • Partitions and Shuffling
  • Job Performance

Hands-On

  • Visualizing SQL Queries
  • Observing Task Execution
  • Understanding Performance
  • Measuring Memory Use


Module 4: Structured Streaming
Lecture

  • Streaming Sources and Sinks
  • Structured Streaming APIs
  • Windowing and Aggregation
  • Checkpointing
  • Watermarking
  • Reliability and Fault Tolerance

Hands-On

  • Reading from TCP
  • Reading from Kafka
  • Continuous Visualization


Module 5: Machine Learning
Lecture

  • Spark ML Pipeline API
  • Built-in Featurizing and Algorithms

Hands-On

  • Featurization
  • Building a Machine Learning Pipeline


Module 6: Graph Processing with GraphFrames
Lecture

  • Basic Graph Analysis
  • GraphFrames API

Hands-On

  • GraphFrames ETL
  • Pagerank and Label Propagation with GraphFrames


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