Spark, No Tears

Foundations

1. Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDD)
2. DataFrames
3. SparkSQL
4. Execution Plans

Data Movement and Quality

1. Input/Output
2. Joins, Skew, And Data Movement
3. Schemas, Bad Data, And Defensive Reads
4. UDFs Versus Built-In Functions
5. Broadcast Variables And Accumulators

Specialized Workloads

1. Spark Stream, DStreams
2. Structured Streaming
3. Graphs
4. Machine Learning
5. Pandas API On Spark

Projects and Production Shape

1. End-To-End Local Spark Project
2. Testing Spark Code Locally
3. Packaging Spark Jobs

Runtime and Ecosystem

1. Lakehouse Table Formats
2. Spark Connect
3. Tips
4. Date and Time
5. Local Spark setup
6. Local Runtime Notes

Spark, No Tears

Index

Index

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