Learning Spark

This book targets Data Scientists and Engineers. We chose these two groups because they have the most to gain from using Spark to expand the scope of problems they can solve. Spark’s rich collection of data focused libraries (like MLlib) make it easy for data scientists to go beyond problems that fit on single machine while making use of their statistical background. Engineers, meanwhile, will learn how to write general-purpose distributed programs in Spark and operate production applications. Engineers and data scientists will both learn different details from this book, but will both be able to apply Spark to solve large distributed problems in their respective fields.