Ever waited over night to run a report and to come back to your computer in the morning to find it still running. When the heat is on and you have a deadline, something is not working. With larger and larger data sets you need to be fluent in the right tools to be able to make your commitments. This learning path is your opportunity to learn from industry leaders about Spark. This path provides hands on opportunities and projects to build your confidence within this tool set.
Come along and start your journey to receiving the following badges: Spark – Level 1 and Spark – Level 2.
Data Engineers, Data Scientists
Beginner
Our learning paths are designed to build on the content learned in the first course and then build upon the concepts in courses that follow. We recommend that they are completed in the order outlined in this learning path to ensure you get the most out of your investment of time. If you like what you see here, come and discover other learning paths and browse our course catalog.
This badge earner has a basic understanding of Spark. The earner can describe Spark, articulate its benefits, and describe how it is used. The individual can also use Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDD) and DataFrames to perform in-memory computing and create applications on top of the Spark built-in libraries. Along with the Spark foundation knowledge, this earner further understands how Spark partitions work and perform memory management and tuning operations.