Spark 3.0 & Big Data Essentials with Scala | Rock the JVM Download

Now with Spark 3.0: Learn practical Big Data with Spark DataFrames, Datasets, RDDs and Spark SQL, hands-on, in Scala

What you’ll learn

apply Spark big data principles
practice Spark DataFrames operations with 100+ examples and exercises
practice type-safe data processing with Spark Datasets
work with low-level Spark APIs with RDDs
use Spark SQL for data processing
migrate data from various data sources, including databases

Requirements

Scala fundamentals, at the level of the Rock the JVM beginners course
Scala advanced – implicit

Description

UPDATED FOR SPARK 3.0

In this course, we will learn how to write big data applications with Apache Spark 3 and Scala. You’ll write 2000+ lines of Spark code yourself, with guidance, and you will become a rockstar.

This course is for Scala programmers who are getting started with Apache Spark and big data. The course is not for advanced Spark engineers.

Why Spark in Scala:

it’s blazing fast for big data
its demand has exploded
it’s a highly marketable skill
it’s well maintained, with dozens of high-quality extensions
it’s a foundation for a data scientist

I like to get to the point and get things done. This course

deconstructs all concepts into the critical pieces you need
selects the most important ideas and separates them into what’s simple but critical and what’s powerful
sequences ideas in a way that “clicks” and makes sense throughout the process of learning
applies everything in live code

The end benefits are still much greater:

a completely new mental model around data processing
significantly more marketable resume
more enjoyable work – Spark is fun!

This course is for established programmers with experience with Scala and with functional programming at the level of the Rock the JVM Scala beginners course. I already assume a solid understanding of general programming fundamentals.

This course is NOT for you if

you’ve never written Scala code before
you don’t have some essential parallel programming background (e.g. what’s a process/a thread)

The course is comprehensive, but you’ll always see me get straight to the point. So make sure you have a good level of focus and commitment to become a badass programmer.

I believe both theory and practice are important. That’s why you’ll get lectures with code examples, real life code demos and assignments, plus additional resources, instructions, exercises and solutions. At the end of the course, you’ll have written thousands of lines of Spark.

I’ve seen that my students are most successful – and my best students work at Google-class companies – when they’re guided, but not being told what to do. I have exercises waiting for you, where I offer my (opinionated) guidance but otherwise freedom to experiment and improve upon your code.

Definitely not least, my students are most successful when they have fun along the way!

So join me in this course and let’s rock the JVM!