Spark in Action 2nd Ed (Manning)
Wednesday, 10 June 2020

While this book is a second edition, it isn't really. It's a new book covering Apache Spark 3 from a different author and is designed to show how to create end-to-end analytics applications. Author Jean-Georges Perrin has based the book around interesting Java-based examples, including a complete data pipeline for processing NASA satellite data. Java, Python, and Scala code samples hosted on GitHub accompany the book. 

 

Author: Jean-Georges Perrin
Publisher: Manning
Date: June 2020
Pages: 576
ISBN: 978-1617295522
Print: 1617295523
Audience: Java developers interested in Spark
Level: Intermediate
Category: Data Science

sparkaction

For recommendations of Big Data books see Reading Your Way Into Big Data in our Programmer's Bookshelf section.

 

For more Book Watch just click.

Book Watch is I Programmer's listing of new books and is compiled using publishers' publicity material. It is not to be read as a review where we provide an independent assessment. Some, but by no means all, of the books in Book Watch are eventually reviewed.

To have new titles included in Book Watch contact  BookWatch@i-programmer.info

Follow @bookwatchiprog on Twitter or subscribe to I Programmer's Books RSS feed for each day's new addition to Book Watch and for new reviews.

 

 

Banner
 


The Async-First Playbook

Author: Sumeet Gayathri Moghe
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pages: 368
ISBN: 978-0138187538
Print: 0138187533
Kindle: B0CCTZHB9N
Audience: Agile developers
Rating: 4
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

The driver behind this book was the pandemic and the need to find ways to make remote working effective for teams. So do [ ... ]



Software Requirements Essentials

Authors: Karl Wiegers and Candase Hokanson
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9780138190286
Print: 0138190283
Kindle: B0BTLC53FF
Audience: General
Rating: 4.5
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

This slim book looks at how to work out the requirements for a software project through twenty 'practices' that you c [ ... ]


More Reviews