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Essential PySpark for Scalable Data Analytics
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Essential PySpark for Scalable Data Analytics

by Sreeram Nudurupati
October 2021
Beginner to intermediate
322 pages
7h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 1: Distributed Computing Primer

This chapter introduces you to the Distributed Computing paradigm and shows you how Distributed Computing can help you to easily process very large amounts of data. You will learn about the concept of Data Parallel Processing using the MapReduce paradigm and, finally, learn how Data Parallel Processing can be made more efficient by using an in-memory, unified data processing engine such as Apache Spark.

Then, you will dive deeper into the architecture and components of Apache Spark along with code examples. Finally, you will get an overview of what's new with the latest 3.0 release of Apache Spark.

In this chapter, the key skills that you will acquire include an understanding of the basics of the Distributed ...

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