1. So, what is Spark, anyway?
This chapter covers
- What Apache Spark is and its use cases
- Basics of distributed technology
- The four pillars of Spark
- Storage and APIs: love the dataframe
When I was a kid in the 1980s, discovering programming through Basic and my Atari, I could not understand why we could not automate basic law enforcement activities such as speed control, traffic-light violations, and parking meters. Everything seemed pretty easy: the book I had said that to be a good programmer, you should avoid GOTO statements. And that’s what I did, trying to structure my code from the age of 12. However, there was no way I could imagine the volume of data (and the booming Internet of Things, or IoT) while I was developing my Monopoly-like ...
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