Learning Apache Apex
by Ananth Gundabattula, Thomas Weise, Munagala V. Ramanath, David Yan, Kenneth Knowles
Introduction to Apex
The world is producing data at unprecedented levels, with a rapidly growing number of mobile devices, sensors, industrial machines, financial transactions, web logs, and so on. Often, the streams of data generated by these sources can offer valuable insights if processed quickly and reliably, and companies are finding it increasingly important to take action on this data-in-motion in order to remain competitive. MapReduce and Apache Hadoop were among the first technologies to enable processing of very large datasets on clusters of commodity hardware. The prevailing paradigm at the time was batch processing, which evolved from MapReduce's heavy reliance on disk I/O to Apache Spark's more efficient, memory-based approach. ...
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