Apache Spark has become the de facto standard for processing data at scale, whether for querying large datasets, training machine learning models to predict future trends, or processing streaming ...

Before you begin your journey as an Apache Spark programmer, you should have a solid understanding of the Spark application architecture and how applications are executed on a Spark cluster. This ...

Apache Spark 3.0 is now here, and it’s bringing a host of enhancements across its diverse range of capabilities. The headliner is an big bump in performance for the SQL engine and better coverage of ...

The Apache Spark community has improved support for Python to such a great degree over the past few years that Python is now a “first-class” language, and no longer a “clunky” add-on as it once was, ...