January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
322 pages
7h 29m
English
This section covers the Apache Spark fundamentals. It is important to become very familiar with the concepts that are presented here before moving on to the next chapters, where we'll be exploring the available APIs.
As mentioned in the introduction to this chapter, the Spark engine processes data in distributed memory across the nodes of a cluster. The following diagram shows the logical structure of how a typical Spark job processes information:

Spark executes a job in the following way:

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