September 2016
Beginner to intermediate
326 pages
6h 47m
English
A streaming application is not just about doing some real-time computations on a stream of data. Generally, streaming will be part of a larger application that includes real-time, batch, and serving layers with machine learning, and so on. A continuous application is an end-to-end application that combines all these features in one application.
In Spark 2.0, the Structured Streaming API is introduced for building continuous applications. The Structured Streaming API addresses the following concerns of a typical streaming application:
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