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S. HainesModern Data Engineering with Apache Sparkhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7452-1_1

1. Introduction to Modern Data Engineering

Scott Haines1  
(1)
San Jose, CA, USA
 

Given you now have this book in hand, I can make two predictions about you. My first prediction is that you are currently working as a data engineer and want to understand how to hone your craft and take full advantage of the Apache Spark ecosystem to do so. However, if my first prediction fell flat then I believe you are interested in what it takes to become a data engineer and would like a friendly hands-on guide to get you there.

Regardless of the accuracy of my predictions, our journey ...

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