This course will prepare you to:

• Explain the architecture of the Apache Spark and Scala Certification component
• Configure and use new functionalities in Apache Spark and Scala Certification
• Use the standard Apache Spark and Scala Certification Sub Modules.
• Explain the Apache Spark and Scala Certification Controlling Configuration and Customization option.

• What is Big Data?
• Big Data Customer Scenarios
• Limitations and Solutions of Existing Data Analytics Architecture with Uber Use Case
• How Hadoop Solves the Big Data Problem?
• What is Hadoop?
• Hadoop’s Key Characteristics
• Hadoop Ecosystem and HDFS
• Hadoop Core Components
• Rack Awareness and Block Replication
• YARN and its Advantage
• Hadoop Cluster and its Architecture
• Hadoop: Different Cluster Modes
• Big Data Analytics with Batch & Real-time Processing
• Why Spark is needed?
• What is Spark?
• How Spark differs from other frameworks?
• Spark at Yahoo!

• What is Scala?
• Why Scala for Spark?
• Scala in other Frameworks
• Introduction to Scala REPL
• Basic Scala Operations
• Variable Types in Scala
• Control Structures in Scala
• Foreach loop, Functions and Procedures
• Collections in Scala- Array
• ArrayBuffer, Map, Tuples, Lists, and more

• Functional Programming
• Higher Order Functions
• Anonymous Functions
• Class in Scala
• Getters and Setters
• Custom Getters and Setters
• Properties with only Getters
• Auxiliary Constructor and Primary Constructor
• Singletons
• Extending a Class
• Overriding Methods
• Traits as Interfaces and Layered Traits

• Spark’s Place in Hadoop Ecosystem
• Spark Components & its Architecture
• Spark Deployment Modes
• Introduction to Spark Shell
• Writing your first Spark Job Using SBT
• Submitting Spark Job
• Spark Web UI
• Data Ingestion using Sqoop

• Challenges in Existing Computing Methods
• Probable Solution & How RDD Solves the Problem
• What is RDD, It’s Operations, Transformations & Actions
• Data Loading and Saving Through RDDs
• Key-Value Pair RDDs
• Other Pair RDDs, Two Pair RDDs
• RDD Lineage
• RDD Persistence
• WordCount Program Using RDD Concepts
• RDD Partitioning & How It Helps Achieve Parallelization
• Passing Functions to Spark

• Need for Spark SQL
• What is Spark SQL?
• Spark SQL Architecture
• SQL Context in Spark SQL
• User Defined Functions
• Data Frames & Datasets
• Interoperating with RDDs
• JSON and Parquet File Formats
• Loading Data through Different Sources
• Spark – Hive Integration

• Why Machine Learning?
• What is Machine Learning?
• Where Machine Learning is Used?
• Face Detection: USE CASE
• Different Types of Machine Learning Techniques
• Introduction to MLlib
• Features of MLlib and MLlib Tools
• Various ML algorithms supported by MLlib

• Supervised Learning - Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, Random Forest
• Unsupervised Learning - K-Means Clustering & How It Works with MLlib
• Analysis on US Election Data using MLlib (K-Means  )

• Need for Kafka
• What is Kafka?
• Core Concepts of Kafka
• Kafka Architecture
• Where is Kafka Used?
• Understanding the Components of Kafka Cluster
• Configuring Kafka Cluster
• Kafka Producer and Consumer Java API
• Need of Apache Flume
• What is Apache Flume?
• Basic Flume Architecture
• Flume Sources
• Flume Sinks
• Flume Channels
• Flume Configuration
• Integrating Apache Flume and Apache Kafka

• Drawbacks in Existing Computing Methods
• Why Streaming is Necessary?
• What is Spark Streaming?
• Spark Streaming Features
• Spark Streaming Workflow
• How Uber Uses Streaming Data
• Streaming Context & DStreams
• Transformations on DStreams
• Describe Windowed Operators and Why it is Useful
• Important Windowed Operators
• Slice, Window and ReduceByWindow Operators
• Stateful Operator

• Apache Spark Streaming: Data Sources
• Streaming Data Source Overview
• Apache Flume and Apache Kafka Data Sources
• Example: Using a Kafka Direct Data Source
• Perform Twitter Sentimental Analysis Using Spark Streaming

Practice Test and Interview Questions