Develop applications for the big data landscape with Spark and Hadoop. This book also explains the role of Spark in developing scalable machine learning and analytics applications with Cloud technologies. Beginning Apache Spark 2 gives you an introduction to Apache Spark and shows you how to work with it. Along the way, you’ll discover resilient distributed datasets (RDDs); use Spark SQL for structured data; and learn stream processing and build real-time applications with Spark Structured Streaming. Furthermore, you’ll learn the fundamentals of Spark ML for machine learning and much more. After you read this book, you will have the fundamentals to become proficient in using Apache Spark and know when and how to apply it to your big data applications. What You Will Learn Understand Spark unified data processing platform Howto run Spark in Spark Shell or Databricks Use and manipulate RDDs Deal with structured data using Spark SQL through its operations and advanced functions Build real-time applications using Spark Structured Streaming Develop intelligent applications with the Spark Machine Learning library Who This Book Is For Programmers and developers active in big data, Hadoop, and Java but who are new to the Apache Spark platform.

Streaming data is a big deal in big data these days. As more and more businesses seek to tame the massive unbounded data sets that pervade our world, streaming systems have finally reached a level of maturity sufficient for mainstream adoption. With this practical guide, data engineers, data scientists, and developers will learn how to work with streaming data in a conceptual and platform-agnostic way. Expanded from Tyler Akidau’s popular blog posts "Streaming 101" and "Streaming 102", this book takes you from an introductory level to a nuanced understanding of the what, where, when, and how of processing real-time data streams. You’ll also dive deep into watermarks and exactly-once processing with co-authors Slava Chernyak and Reuven Lax. You’ll explore: How streaming and batch data processing patterns compare The core principles and concepts behind robust out-of-order data processing How watermarks track progress and completeness in infinite datasets How exactly-once data processing techniques ensure correctness How the concepts of streams and tables form the foundations of both batch and streaming data processing The practical motivations behind a powerful persistent state mechanism, driven by a real-world example How time-varying relations provide a link between stream processing and the world of SQL and relational algebra

Dive into the world of big data processing and analytics with the "PySpark Cookbook". This book provides over 60 hands-on recipes for implementing efficient data-intensive solutions using Apache Spark and Python. By mastering these recipes, you'll be equipped to tackle challenges in large-scale data processing, machine learning, and stream analytics. What this Book will help me do Set up and configure PySpark environments effectively, including working with Jupyter for enhanced interactivity. Understand and utilize DataFrames for data manipulation, analysis, and transformation tasks. Develop end-to-end machine learning solutions using the ML and MLlib modules in PySpark. Implement structured streaming and graph-processing solutions to analyze and visualize data streams and relationships. Deploy PySpark applications to the cloud infrastructure efficiently using best practices. Author(s) This book is co-authored by None Lee and None Drabas, who are experienced professionals in data processing and analytics leveraging Python and Apache Spark. With their deep technical expertise and a passion for teaching through practical examples, they aim to make the complex concepts of PySpark accessible to developers of varied experience levels. Who is it for? This book is ideal for Python developers who are keen to delve into the Apache Spark ecosystem. Whether you're just starting with big data or have some experience with Spark, this book provides practical recipes to enhance your skills. Readers looking to solve real-world data-intensive challenges using PySpark will find this resource invaluable.

There are many benefits to becoming a data-driven organization, including the ability to accelerate and improve business decision accuracy through the real-time processing of transactions, social media streams, and IoT data. But those benefits require significant changes to your infrastructure. You need flexible architectures that can copy data to analytics platforms at near-zero latency while maintaining 100% production uptime. Fortunately, a solution already exists. This ebook demonstrates how change data capture (CDC) can meet the scalability, efficiency, real-time, and zero-impact requirements of modern data architectures. Kevin Petrie, Itamar Ankorion, and Dan Potter—technology marketing leaders at Attunity—explain how CDC enables faster and more accurate decisions based on current data and reduces or eliminates full reloads that disrupt production and efficiency. The book examines: How CDC evolved from a niche feature of database replication software to a critical data architecture building block Architectures where data workflow and analysis take place, and their integration points with CDC How CDC identifies and captures source data updates to assist high-speed replication to one or more targets Case studies on cloud-based streaming and streaming to a data lake and related architectures Guiding principles for effectively implementing CDC in cloud, data lake, and streaming environments The Attunity Replicate platform for efficiently loading data across all major database, data warehouse, cloud, streaming, and Hadoop platforms

Use this practical guide to successfully handle the challenges encountered when designing an enterprise data lake and learn industry best practices to resolve issues. When designing an enterprise data lake you often hit a roadblock when you must leave the comfort of the relational world and learn the nuances of handling non-relational data. Starting from sourcing data into the Hadoop ecosystem, you will go through stages that can bring up tough questions such as data processing, data querying, and security. Concepts such as change data capture and data streaming are covered. The book takes an end-to-end solution approach in a data lake environment that includes data security, high availability, data processing, data streaming, and more. Each chapter includes application of a concept, code snippets, and use case demonstrations to provide you with a practical approach. You will learn the concept, scope, application, and starting point. What You'll Learn Get to know data lake architecture and design principles Implement data capture and streaming strategies Implement data processing strategies in Hadoop Understand the data lake security framework and availability model Who This Book Is For Big data architects and solution architects

Today’s digital companies demand real-time insights and immediate action for everything from purchase to fulfillment, recommendation, and more. As a result, many organizations are adopting fast data applications to accelerate the value they extract from data as it flows into the system. With this practical ebook, you’ll learn the common architectural patterns that form the foundation of successful fast data deployments. Engineers from Lightbend identify the key characteristics of fast data architectures, separate them into functional blocks, and show you how to implement those functions using components like those in the SMACK stack—Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, and Kafka, as well as others. Architects will learn how to choose, combine, and run SMACK stack technologies to build resilient, scalable, and responsive systems that your company requires. This ebook examines: The anatomy of fast data applications: the application model, streaming data sources, processing engines, and data sinks Functional composition of the SMACK stack and extensions The event backbone that connects all the major components of a fast data platform together Compute engines for transforming data into valuable insights Storage systems that form the transition between the fast data domain and client applications Patterns you can use in the data serving layer, including data-driven microservices Container orchestrators in the substrate layer that provide resources to services, frameworks, and applications

Spark for Data Professionals introduces and solidifies the concepts behind Spark 2.x, teaching working developers, architects, and data professionals exactly how to build practical Spark solutions. Jeffrey Aven covers all aspects of Spark development, including basic programming to SparkSQL, SparkR, Spark Streaming, Messaging, NoSQL and Hadoop integration. Each chapter presents practical exercises deploying Spark to your local or cloud environment, plus programming exercises for building real applications. Unlike other Spark guides, Spark for Data Professionals explains crucial concepts step-by-step, assuming no extensive background as an open source developer. It provides a complete foundation for quickly progressing to more advanced data science and machine learning topics. This guide will help you: Understand Spark basics that will make you a better programmer and cluster “citizen” Master Spark programming techniques that maximize your productivity Choose the right approach for each problem Make the most of built-in platform constructs, including broadcast variables, accumulators, effective partitioning, caching, and checkpointing Leverage powerful tools for managing streaming, structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data

Many forces affect software today: larger datasets, geographical disparities, complex company structures, and the growing need to be fast and nimble in the face of change. Proven approaches such as service-oriented and event-driven architectures are joined by newer techniques such as microservices, reactive architectures, DevOps, and stream processing. Many of these patterns are successful by themselves, but as this practical ebook demonstrates, they provide a more holistic and compelling approach when applied together. Author Ben Stopford explains how service-based architectures and stream processing tools such as Apache Kafka can help you build business-critical systems. You’ll learn how to apply patterns including Event Sourcing and CQRS, and how to build multi-team systems with microservices and SOA using patterns such as "inside out databases" and "event streams as a source of truth." These approaches provide a unique foundation for how these large, autonomous service ecosystems can communicate and share data. Learn why streaming beats request-response based architectures in complex, contemporary use cases Understand why replayable logs such as Kafka provide a backbone for both service communication and shared datasets Explore how event collaboration and event sourcing patterns increase safety and recoverability with functional, event-driven approaches Build service ecosystems that blend event-driven and request-driven interfaces using a replayable log and Kafka’s Streams API Scale beyond individual teams into larger, department- and company-sized architectures, using event streams as a source of truth

Learn how to use, deploy, and maintain Apache Spark with this comprehensive guide, written by the creators of the open-source cluster-computing framework. With an emphasis on improvements and new features in Spark 2.0, authors Bill Chambers and Matei Zaharia break down Spark topics into distinct sections, each with unique goals. Youâ??ll explore the basic operations and common functions of Sparkâ??s structured APIs, as well as Structured Streaming, a new high-level API for building end-to-end streaming applications. Developers and system administrators will learn the fundamentals of monitoring, tuning, and debugging Spark, and explore machine learning techniques and scenarios for employing MLlib, Sparkâ??s scalable machine-learning library. Get a gentle overview of big data and Spark Learn about DataFrames, SQL, and Datasetsâ??Sparkâ??s core APIsâ??through worked examples Dive into Sparkâ??s low-level APIs, RDDs, and execution of SQL and DataFrames Understand how Spark runs on a cluster Debug, monitor, and tune Spark clusters and applications Learn the power of Structured Streaming, Sparkâ??s stream-processing engine Learn how you can apply MLlib to a variety of problems, including classification or recommendation

Dive into the essential resource for mastering Apache Kafka with this cookbook of practical recipes. You'll explore the dynamic features of Kafka 1.0, integrate it with enterprise data solutions, and confidently manage messaging and streaming data in real-time. What this Book will help me do Effectively install and configure Apache Kafka in a professional environment. Implement Kafka producers and consumers to manage real-time data streams. Utilize Confluent platforms and Kafka streams for advanced data processing. Monitor Kafka clusters with tools like Graphite and Ganglia for optimal performance. Integrate Kafka seamlessly with tools such as Hadoop, Spark, and Elasticsearch. Author(s) None Estrada and None Zinoviev have extensive experience in enterprise data systems and have been dedicated contributors to the Apache Kafka ecosystem. Their combined expertise encompasses developing robust, real-time distributed systems and delivering insightful technical guidance. Through this book, they share their vast knowledge and practical solutions, tailored for both developers and administrators. Who is it for? This book is tailored for developers and administrators looking to enhance their expertise in Apache Kafka. Developers should be comfortable with Java or Scala to fully utilize examples, while administrators benefit from prior knowledge of Kafka operations. Ideal readers are those seeking actionable techniques to efficiently manage and integrate Kafka into their enterprise systems.

Quickly find solutions to common programming problems encountered while processing big data. Content is presented in the popular problem-solution format. Look up the programming problem that you want to solve. Read the solution. Apply the solution directly in your own code. Problem solved! PySpark Recipes covers Hadoop and its shortcomings. The architecture of Spark, PySpark, and RDD are presented. You will learn to apply RDD to solve day-to-day big data problems. Python and NumPy are included and make it easy for new learners of PySpark to understand and adopt the model. What You Will Learn Understand the advanced features of PySpark2 and SparkSQL Optimize your code Program SparkSQL with Python Use Spark Streaming and Spark MLlib with Python Perform graph analysis with GraphFrames Who This Book Is For Data analysts, Python programmers, big data enthusiasts

Moore’s law has finally run out of steam for CPUs. The number of x86 cores that can be placed cost-effectively on a single chip has reached a practical limit, making higher densities prohibitively expensive for most applications. Fortunately, for big data analytics, machine learning, and database applications, a more capable and cost-effective alternative for scaling compute performance is already available: the graphics processing unit, or GPU. In this report, executives at Kinetica and Sierra Communications explain how incorporating GPUs is ideal for keeping pace with the relentless growth in streaming, complex, and large data confronting organizations today. Technology professionals, business analysts, and data scientists will learn how their organizations can begin implementing GPU-accelerated solutions either on premise or in the cloud. This report explores: How GPUs supplement CPUs to enable continued price/performance gains The many database and data analytics applications that can benefit from GPU acceleration Why GPU databases with user-defined functions (UDFs) can simplify and unify the machine learning/deep learning pipeline How GPU-accelerated databases can process streaming data from the Internet of Things and other sources in real time The performance advantage of GPU databases in demanding geospatial analytics applications How cognitive computing—the most compute-intensive application currently imaginable—is now within reach, using GPUs

Every enterprise application creates data, whether it’s log messages, metrics, user activity, outgoing messages, or something else. And how to move all of this data becomes nearly as important as the data itself. If you’re an application architect, developer, or production engineer new to Apache Kafka, this practical guide shows you how to use this open source streaming platform to handle real-time data feeds. Engineers from Confluent and LinkedIn who are responsible for developing Kafka explain how to deploy production Kafka clusters, write reliable event-driven microservices, and build scalable stream-processing applications with this platform. Through detailed examples, you’ll learn Kafka’s design principles, reliability guarantees, key APIs, and architecture details, including the replication protocol, the controller, and the storage layer. Understand publish-subscribe messaging and how it fits in the big data ecosystem. Explore Kafka producers and consumers for writing and reading messages Understand Kafka patterns and use-case requirements to ensure reliable data delivery Get best practices for building data pipelines and applications with Kafka Manage Kafka in production, and learn to perform monitoring, tuning, and maintenance tasks Learn the most critical metrics among Kafka’s operational measurements Explore how Kafka’s stream delivery capabilities make it a perfect source for stream processing systems

Learn how to design and build efficient real-time streaming applications using Apache Kafka, a leading distributed streaming platform. This book provides comprehensive guidance on setting up Kafka clusters, developing producers and consumers, and integrating with frameworks like Spark, Storm, and Heron. By the end, you'll master the skills needed to create enterprise-grade data streaming solutions. What this Book will help me do Grasp the core concepts and components of Apache Kafka and its ecosystem. Develop robust Kafka producers and consumers to process real-time data streams. Design and implement streaming applications using Spark, Storm, and Heron. Plan Kafka deployments with a focus on scalability, capacity, and fault tolerance. Ensure secure data streaming with best practices for securing Apache Kafka. Author(s) The authors, None Singh and None Kumar, bring years of expertise in data engineering and distributed systems. Having worked extensively with streaming technologies like Apache Kafka, they aim to share their in-depth knowledge through practical examples and real-world scenarios. Their approach to teaching focuses on making complex concepts easily understandable. Who is it for? This book is ideal for software developers and data engineers who are eager to learn Apache Kafka for building streaming applications. Some experience with programming, particularly Java, will help readers get the most out of the material. If you are working on data-processing systems or looking to enhance your skills in real-time data handling, this book caters to your needs.

Mastering Apache Storm is your step-by-step guide to mastering real-time data streaming with this robust framework. You'll learn how to process big data efficiently and integrate Apache Storm with popular technologies like Kafka, HBase, and Redis to maximize its potential. This book walks you through from basic concepts to advanced implementations of Apache Storm in real-world scenarios. What this Book will help me do Understand the core features and operation of Apache Storm for real-time data streaming. Integrate Apache Storm with other Big Data frameworks like Kafka, HBase, Redis, and Hadoop. Effectively deploy and manage multi-node Apache Storm clusters in real-world environments. Monitor and analyze your data streams and system health effectively using built-in and external tools. Learn to implement fault-tolerant, scalable, and distributed stream processing applications in Apache Storm. Author(s) None Jain is an experienced software developer and technical instructor specializing in distributed systems and real-time data processing. With years of experience working with Apache Storm and related technologies, their teachings focus on practical, hands-on learning to equip readers with actionable skills. Who is it for? This book is ideal for Java developers aspiring to build expertise in real-time data streaming and distributed processing applications using Apache Storm. Beginners can start with the fundamentals provided, while those with prior knowledge can delve into intermediate and advanced implementations.

Delve into mastering big data processing with 'Apache Spark 2.x for Java Developers.' This book provides a practical guide to implementing Apache Spark using the Java APIs, offering a unique opportunity for Java developers to leverage Spark's powerful framework without transitioning to Scala. What this Book will help me do Learn how to process data from formats like XML, JSON, CSV using Spark Core. Implement real-time analytics using Spark Streaming and third-party tools like Kafka. Understand data querying with Spark SQL and master SQL schema processing. Apply machine learning techniques with Spark MLlib to real-world scenarios. Explore graph processing and analytics using Spark GraphX. Author(s) None Kumar and None Gulati, experienced professionals in Java development and big data, bring their wealth of practical experience and passion for teaching to this book. With a clear and concise writing style, they aim to simplify Spark for Java developers, making big data approachable. Who is it for? This book is perfect for Java developers who are eager to expand their skillset into big data processing with Apache Spark. Whether you are a seasoned Spark user or first diving into big data concepts, this book meets you at your level. With practical examples and straightforward explanations, you can unlock the potential of Spark in real-world scenarios.

Streaming Data introduces the concepts and requirements of streaming and real-time data systems. The book is an idea-rich tutorial that teaches you to think about how to efficiently interact with fast-flowing data. About the Technology As humans, we're constantly filtering and deciphering the information streaming toward us. In the same way, streaming data applications can accomplish amazing tasks like reading live location data to recommend nearby services, tracking faults with machinery in real time, and sending digital receipts before your customers leave the shop. Recent advances in streaming data technology and techniques make it possible for any developer to build these applications if they have the right mindset. This book will let you join them. About the Book Streaming Data is an idea-rich tutorial that teaches you to think about efficiently interacting with fast-flowing data. Through relevant examples and illustrated use cases, you'll explore designs for applications that read, analyze, share, and store streaming data. Along the way, you'll discover the roles of key technologies like Spark, Storm, Kafka, Flink, RabbitMQ, and more. This book offers the perfect balance between big-picture thinking and implementation details. What's Inside The right way to collect real-time data Architecting a streaming pipeline Analyzing the data Which technologies to use and when About the Reader Written for developers familiar with relational database concepts. No experience with streaming or real-time applications required. About the Author Andrew Psaltis is a software engineer focused on massively scalable real-time analytics. Quotes The definitive book if you want to master the architecture of an enterprise-grade streaming application. - Sergio Fernandez Gonzalez, Accenture A thorough explanation and examination of the different systems, strategies, and tools for streaming data implementations. - Kosmas Chatzimichalis, Mach 7x A well-structured way to learn about streaming data and how to put it into practice in modern real-time systems. - Giuliano Araujo Bertoti, FATEC This book is all you need to understand what streaming is all about! - Carlos Curotto, Globant

This book introduces you to the world of Big Data processing using Apache Spark and Python. You will learn to set up and run Spark on different systems, process massive datasets, and create solutions to real-world Big Data challenges with over 15 hands-on examples included. What this Book will help me do Understand the basics of Apache Spark and its ecosystem. Learn how to process large datasets with Spark RDDs using Python. Implement machine learning models with Spark's MLlib library. Master real-time data processing with Spark Streaming modules. Deploy and run Spark jobs on cloud clusters using AWS EMR. Author(s) Frank Kane spent 9 years working at Amazon and IMDb, handling and solving real-world machine learning and Big Data problems. Today, as an instructional designer and educator, he brings his wealth of experience to learners around the globe by creating accessible, practical learning resources. His teaching is clear, engaging, and designed to prepare students for real-world applications. Who is it for? This book is ideal for data scientists or data analysts seeking to delve into Big Data processing with Apache Spark. Readers who have foundational knowledge of Python, as well as some understanding of data processing principles, will find this book useful to sharpen their skills further. It is designed for those eager to learn the practical applications of Big Data tools in today's industry environments. By the end of this book, you should feel confident tackling Big Data challenges using Spark and Python.

Discover how to harness the power of Apache Spark 2.x for your Big Data processing projects. In this book, you will explore over 70 cloud-ready recipes that will guide you to perform distributed data analytics, structured streaming, machine learning, and much more. What this Book will help me do Effectively install and configure Apache Spark with various cluster managers and platforms. Set up and utilize development environments tailored for Spark applications. Operate on schema-aware data using RDDs, DataFrames, and Datasets. Perform real-time streaming analytics with sources such as Apache Kafka. Leverage MLlib for supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and recommendation systems. Author(s) None Yadav is a seasoned data engineer with a deep understanding of Big Data tools and technologies, particularly Apache Spark. With years of experience in the field of distributed computing and data analysis, Yadav brings practical insights and techniques to enrich the learning experience of readers. Who is it for? This book is ideal for data engineers, data scientists, and Big Data professionals who are keen to enhance their Apache Spark 2.x skills. If you're working with distributed processing and want to solve complex data challenges, this book addresses practical problems. Note that a basic understanding of Scala is recommended to get the most out of this resource.

Apache Spark is amazing when everything clicks. But if you haven’t seen the performance improvements you expected, or still don’t feel confident enough to use Spark in production, this practical book is for you. Authors Holden Karau and Rachel Warren demonstrate performance optimizations to help your Spark queries run faster and handle larger data sizes, while using fewer resources. Ideal for software engineers, data engineers, developers, and system administrators working with large-scale data applications, this book describes techniques that can reduce data infrastructure costs and developer hours. Not only will you gain a more comprehensive understanding of Spark, you’ll also learn how to make it sing. With this book, you’ll explore: How Spark SQL’s new interfaces improve performance over SQL’s RDD data structure The choice between data joins in Core Spark and Spark SQL Techniques for getting the most out of standard RDD transformations How to work around performance issues in Spark’s key/value pair paradigm Writing high-performance Spark code without Scala or the JVM How to test for functionality and performance when applying suggested improvements Using Spark MLlib and Spark ML machine learning libraries Spark’s Streaming components and external community packages