Before you begin your journey as an Apache Spark programmer, you should have a solid understanding of the Spark application architecture and how applications are executed on a Spark cluster. This ...

The Apache Spark community has improved support for Python to such a great degree over the past few years that Python is now a “first-class” language, and no longer a “clunky” add-on as it once was, ...

But Spark has also had its share of impedance mismatch issues, such as making R and Python programs first-class citizens, or adapting to more compute-intensive processing of AI models.