Exploring the Ins and Outs of Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python: A Review of the Hands-On Udemy Course
I recently completed the course “Taming Big Data with Apache Spark and Python – Hands On!” on Udemy, taught by Frank Kane. I wanted to share my thoughts on the course and provide my opinions on what I enjoyed and what I didn’t like as much. My thoughts If you are already familiar with Spark […]
Amazon Athena for Apache Spark
Christmas has come early for us and we have the good folks at AWS to thank for it. What is it I hear you say? A new feature that I believe is going to change the way we use Athena going forward. Well, going to change the way I use it going forward that is […]
Spark’s map() vs flatMap() What’s the difference?
I’ve been messing around with Spark for a few months and dabbled in it with a few work projects, but I recently decided to really get stuck in and understand it. While testing out Spark’s map() and flatMap() transformation operations, I thought I’d post some of my findings here to save myself having to look […]