I would suggest do not buy any book, just start with databricks community edition
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Tobi Bosede <ani.to...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well that is the nature of technology, ever evolving. There will always be > new concepts. If you're trying to get started ASAP and the internet isn't > enough, I'd recommend buying a book and using Spark 1.6. A lot of > production stacks are still on that version and the knowledge from > mastering 1.6 is transferable to 2+. I think that beats waiting forever. > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 6:35 PM, Zeming Yu <zemin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm trying to decide whether to buy the book learning spark, spark for >> machine learning etc. or wait for a new edition covering the new concepts >> like dataframe and datasets. Anyone got any suggestions? >> > > -- Best Regards, Ayan Guha