This course is designed as an entry point for developers who need to create applications to analyze Big Data stored in Apache Hadoop using Spark. Topics include: An overview of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), including HDFS and YARN; using Spark Core APIs for interactive data exploration; Spark SQL and DataFrame operations; Spark Streaming and DStream operations; data visualization, reporting, and collaboration; performance monitoring and tuning; building and deploying Spark applications; and an introduction to the Spark Machine Learning Library.
Software engineers that are looking to develop in-memory applications for time sensitive and highly iterative applications in an Enterprise HDP environment.
At the completion of the course students will be able to: