Thanks Stephen! I appreciate it very much. And yeah...Stephen is right on this. Go and read the notes and let me know where you're missing things :-)
p.s. Holden has just announced that her book is complete and think Matei is also quite far with his writing. Jacek On 4 May 2017 2:52 a.m., "Stephen Fletcher" <stephen.fletc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Zeming, > > Jacek also has a really good online spark book for spark 2, "mastering > spark". I found it very helpful when trying to understand spark 2's > encoders. > > his book is here: > https://www.gitbook.com/book/jaceklaskowski/mastering-apache-spark/details > > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Neelesh Salian <neeleshssal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> The Apache Spark documentation is good to begin with. >> All the programming guides, particularly. >> >> >> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 5:07 PM, ayan guha <guha.a...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Neelesh S. Salian >> >> >
