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Get started with distributed computing using PySpark, a single unified framework to solve end-to-end data analytics at scale Key Features Discover how to convert huge amounts of raw data into meaningful and actionable insights Use Spark's unified analytics engine for end-to-end analytics, from data preparation to predictive analytics Perform data ingestion, cleansing, and integration for ML, data analytics, and data visualization Book Description Apache Spark is a unified data analytics engine designed to process huge volumes of data quickly and efficiently. PySpark is Apache Spark's Python language API, which offers Python developers an easy-to-use scalable data analytics framework. Essential PySpark for Scalable Data Analytics starts by exploring the distributed computing paradigm and provides a high-level overview of Apache Spark. You'll begin your analytics journey with the data engineering process, learning how to perform data ingestion, cleansing, and integration at scale. This book helps you build real-time analytics pipelines that help you gain insights faster. You'll then discover methods for building cloud-based data lakes, and explore Delta Lake, which brings reliability to data lakes. The book also covers Data Lakehouse, an emerging paradigm, which combines the structure and performance of a data warehouse with the scalability of cloud-based data lakes. Later, you'll perform scalable data science and machine learning tasks using PySpark, such as data preparation, feature engineering, and model training and productionization. Finally, you'll learn ways to scale out standard Python ML libraries along with a new pandas API on top of PySpark called Koalas. By the end of this PySpark book, you'll be able to harness the power of PySpark to solve business problems. What you will learn Understand the role of distributed computing in the world of big data Gain an appreciation for Apache Spark as the de facto go-to for big data processing Scale out your data analytics process using Apache Spark Build data pipelines using data lakes, and perform data visualization with PySpark and Spark SQL Leverage the cloud to build truly scalable and real-time data analytics applications Explore the applications of data science and scalable machine learning with PySpark Integrate your clean and curated data with BI and SQL analysis tools Who this book is for This book is for practicing data engineers, data scientists, data analysts, and data enthusiasts wh ...

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Accelerate computations and make the most of your data effectively and efficiently on Databricks Key Features Understand Spark optimizations for big data workloads and maximizing performance Build efficient big data engineering pipelines with Databricks and Delta Lake Efficiently manage Spark clusters for big data processing Book Description Databricks is an industry-leading, cloud-based platform for data analytics, data science, and data engineering supporting thousands of organizations across the world in their data journey. It is a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark-based big data analytics platform for data science and data engineering in the cloud. In Optimizing Databricks Workloads, you will get started with a brief introduction to Azure Databricks and quickly begin to understand the important optimization techniques. The book covers how to select the optimal Spark cluster configuration for running big data processing and workloads in Databricks, some very useful optimization techniques for Spark DataFrames, best practices for optimizing Delta Lake, and techniques to optimize Spark jobs through Spark core. It contains an opportunity to learn about some of the real-world scenarios where optimizing workloads in Databricks has helped organizations increase performance and save costs across various domains. By the end of this book, you will be prepared with the necessary toolkit to speed up your Spark jobs and process your data more efficiently. What you will learn Get to grips with Spark fundamentals and the Databricks platform Process big data using the Spark DataFrame API with Delta Lake Analyze data using graph processing in Databricks Use MLflow to manage machine learning life cycles in Databricks Find out how to choose the right cluster configuration for your workloads Explore file compaction and clustering methods to tune Delta tables Discover advanced optimization techniques to speed up Spark jobs Who this book is for This book is for data engineers, data scientists, and cloud architects who have working knowledge of Spark/Databricks and some basic understanding of data engineering principles. Readers will need to have a working knowledge of Python, and some experience of SQL in PySpark and Spark SQL is beneficial.

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Take a journey toward discovering, learning, and using Apache Spark 3.0. In this book, you will gain expertise on the powerful and efficient distributed data processing engine inside of Apache Spark; its user-friendly, comprehensive, and flexible programming model for processing data in batch and streaming; and the scalable machine learning algorithms and practical utilities to build machine learning applications. Beginning Apache Spark 3 begins by explaining different ways of interacting with Apache Spark, such as Spark Concepts and Architecture, and Spark Unified Stack. Next, it offers an overview of Spark SQL before moving on to its advanced features. It covers tips and techniques for dealing with performance issues, followed by an overview of the structured streaming processing engine. It concludes with a demonstration of how to develop machine learning applications using Spark MLlib and how to manage the machine learning development lifecycle. This book is packed with practical examples and code snippets to help you master concepts and features immediately after they are covered in each section. After reading this book, you will have the knowledge required to build your own big data pipelines, applications, and machine learning applications. What You Will Learn Master the Spark unified data analytics engine and its various components Work in tandem to provide a scalable, fault tolerant and performant data processing engine Leverage the user-friendly and flexible programming model to perform simple to complex data analytics using dataframe and Spark SQL Develop machine learning applications using Spark MLlib Manage the machine learning development lifecycle using MLflow Who This Book Is For Data scientists, data engineers and software developers.

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