Agenda

• Introduction to Spark
   
• Using PySpark for StackExchange Data Analysis
   
• Do and Don'ts for Spark and PySpark

What is Apache Spark?

• Apache Spark™ is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing
• Originally developed in AMPLab at UC Berkely (2009), open-sourced in 2010, transferred to Apache 2013
• Claims to run programs up to 100x faster than Hadoop MapReduce in memory, or 10x faster on disk.

Advantages Over MapReduce

• Speed.
• Ease of Use - Scala, Java, Python, R.
• Generality - Supports different use cases.
• Runs Everywhere - Hadoop, Mesos, standalone ...

Spark Components

• Spark RDD
• Spark SQL and DataFrames
• Spark Streaming
• MLlib
• GraphX

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

Linus Torvalds

Do's and Don'ts

• Prefer DataFrame over RDD (Especially with PySpark)
• Avoid UDFs in Python
• Use cache carefully
• Avoid collect
• Be lazy

Resources

• http://spark.apache.org/documentation.html
• https://databricks.com/spark/developer-resources
• http://spark-packages.org
• https://github.com/databricks/spark-knowledgebase

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Thank You

Shagun Sodhani