Apache Spark for Java Developers - Course Extract - Getting started

This is an extract from the Virtual Pair Programmers Apache Spark for Java Developers course. The course will help you get started with the amazing Apache Spark parallel computing framework - this course is designed especially for Java Developers. In this chapter we show you how to "install" Spark - it's just a maven dependency. In the full course you will learn all the fundamentals that you need to understand the main operations that you can perform in Spark Core, deploy to a live EMR hardware cluster and understand the internals of Spark and how it optimises your execution plans. You will get some great practice with Java 8 Lambdas - our most "functional" course to date! The full course is available at www.virtualpairprogrammers.com