Persistent Storage for Enterprise-Grade Spark Applications

Apache Spark is becoming very popular and widely used in the big data community. There are several reasons for Spark…

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A Functional Approach to Logging in Apache Spark

Logging in Apache Spark is very easy to do, since Spark offers access to a logobject out of the box;…

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From Pig to Spark: An Easy Journey to Spark for Apache Pig Developers

As a data analyst that primarily used Apache Pig in the past, I eventually needed to program more challenging jobs…

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Using Apache Spark SQL to Explore S&P 500, and Oil Stock Prices

This post will use Apache Spark SQL and DataFrames to query, compare and explore S&P 500, Exxon and Anadarko Petroleum…

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Using MapR, Mesos, Marathon, Docker, and Apache Spark to Deploy and Run Your First Jobs and Containers

This blog post describes steps for deploying Mesos, Marathon, Docker, and Spark on a MapR cluster, and running various jobs…

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Top 10 Questions about Apache Spark on the MapR Data Platform

In the last few weeks, we’ve seen a lot of activity and momentum centered on Apache Spark. At the Spark…

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IntelliJ Scala and Apache Spark – Well, Now You Know

IntelliJ Scala and Spark Setup Overview In this post, we’re going to review one way to setup IntelliJ for Scala…

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Spark Streaming Testing with Scala Example

Spark Streaming Testing How do you create and automate tests of Spark Streaming applications?  In this post, we’ll show an…

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Apache Spark, Cassandra and Game of Thrones

Apache Spark with Cassandra is a powerful combination in data processing pipelines.  In this post, we will build a Scala…

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