In Chapter 4, Understanding Spark Programming Model, we discussed various techniques of caching/persisting RDDs to avoid all the re-computation in cases of failures. The same techniques can be followed with a DStream type as well. However, as streaming applications are meant to run all the time, an application may fail because of system failures or network failures as well. To make the Spark Streaming application capable of recovering from such failures, it should be checkpointed to all external locations, most likely a fault tolerant storage such as HDFS and so on.
Spark Streaming allows us to checkpoint the following types of information:
- Metadata checkpointing: This helps to checkpoint the metadata of the Spark Streaming ...
