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Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics
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Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics

by Sridhar Alla, Md. Rezaul Karim
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
796 pages
18h 55m
English
Packt Publishing
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Java interoperability

Java is one of the most popular languages, and many programmers learn Java programming as their first entrance to the programming world. The popularity of Java has increased since its initial release back in 1995. Java has gained in popularity for many reasons. One of them is the design of its platform, such that any Java code will be compiled to bytecode, which in turn runs on the JVM. With this magnificent feature, Java language to be being written once and run anywhere. So, Java is a cross-platform language.

Also, Java has lots of support from its community and lots of packages that will help you get your idea up and running with the help of these packages. Then comes Scala, which has lots of features that Java lacks, ...

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