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Writing Beautiful Apache Spark Code

Processing massive datasets with ease

Matthew Powers

Learn how to analyze big datasets in a distributed environment without being bogged down by theoretical topics. The API is vast and other learning tools make the mistake of trying to cover everything. This book only covers what you need to know, so you can explore other parts of the API on your own!

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This book teaches Spark fundamentals and shows you how to build production grade libraries and applications. It took years for the Spark community to develop the best practices outlined in this book. This book will fast track your Spark learning journey and put you on the path to mastery.

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Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

  1. Typical painful workflow
  2. Productionalizing advanced analytics models is hard
  3. Why Scala?
  4. Who should read this book?
  5. Is this book for data engineers or data scientists?
  6. Beautiful Spark philosophy
  7. DataFrames vs. RDDs
  8. Spark streaming
  9. Machine learning
  10. The “coalesce test” for evaluating learning resources
  11. Will we cover the entire Spark SQL API?
  12. How this book is organized
  13. Spark programming levels
  14. Note about Spark versions

Running Spark Locally

  1. Starting the console
  2. Running Scala code in the console
  3. Accessing the SparkSession in the console
  4. Console commands

Databricks Community

  1. Creating a notebook and cluster
  2. Running some code
  3. Next steps

Introduction to DataFrames

  1. Creating DataFrames
  2. Adding columns
  3. Filtering rows
  4. More on schemas
  5. Creating DataFrames with createDataFrame()
  6. Next Steps

Working with CSV files

  1. Reading a CSV file into a DataFrame
  2. Writing a DataFrame to disk
  3. Reading CSV files in Databricks Notebooks

Just Enough Scala for Spark Programmers

  1. Scala function basics
  2. Currying functions
  3. object
  4. trait
  5. package
  6. Implicit classes
  7. Next steps

Column Methods

  1. A simple example
  2. Instantiating Column objects
  3. gt
  4. substr
  5. + operator
  6. lit
  7. isNull
  8. isNotNull
  9. when / otherwise
  10. Next steps

Introduction to Spark SQL functions

  1. High level review
  2. lit() function
  3. when() and otherwise() functions
  4. Writing your own SQL function
  5. Next steps

User Defined Functions (UDFs)

  1. Simple UDF example
  2. Using Column Functions
  3. Conclusion

Chaining Custom DataFrame Transformations in Spark

  1. Dataset Transform Method
  2. Transform Method with Arguments

Whitespace data munging with Spark

  1. trim(), ltrim(), and rtrim()
  2. singleSpace()
  3. removeAllWhitespace()
  4. Conclusion

Defining DataFrame Schemas with StructField and StructType

  1. Defining a schema to create a DataFrame
  2. StructField
  3. Defining schemas with the :: operator
  4. Defining schemas with the add() method
  5. Common errors
  6. LongType
  7. Next steps

Different approaches to manually create Spark DataFrames

  1. toDF
  2. createDataFrame
  3. createDF
  4. How we’ll create DataFrames in this book

Dealing with null in Spark

  1. What is null?
  2. Spark uses null by default sometimes
  3. nullable Columns
  4. Native Spark code
  5. Scala null Conventions
  6. User Defined Functions
  7. Spark Rules for Dealing with null

Using JAR Files Locally

  1. Starting the console with a JAR file
  2. Adding JAR file to an existing console session
  3. Attaching JARs to Databricks clusters
  4. Review

Working with Spark ArrayType columns

  1. Scala collections
  2. Splitting a string into an ArrayType column
  3. Directly creating an ArrayType column
  4. array_contains
  5. explode
  6. collect_list
  7. Single column array functions
  8. Generic single column array functions
  9. Multiple column array functions
  10. Split array column into multiple columns
  11. Closing thoughts

Working with Spark MapType Columns

  1. Scala maps
  2. Creating MapType columns
  3. Fetching values from maps with element_at()
  4. Appending MapType columns
  5. Creating MapType columns from two ArrayType columns
  6. Converting Arrays to Maps with Scala
  7. Merging maps with map_concat()
  8. Using StructType columns instead of MapType columns
  9. Writing MapType columns to disk
  10. Conclusion

Adding StructType columns to DataFrames

  1. StructType overview
  2. Appending StructType columns
  3. Using StructTypes to eliminate order dependencies
  4. Order dependencies can be a big problem in large Spark codebases

Working with dates and times

  1. Creating DateType columns
  2. year(), month(), dayofmonth()
  3. minute(), second()
  4. datediff()
  5. date_add()
  6. Next steps

Performing operations on multiple columns with foldLeft

  1. foldLeft review in Scala
  2. Eliminating whitespace from multiple columns
  3. snake_case all columns in a DataFrame
  4. Wrapping foldLeft operations in custom transformations
  5. Next steps

Equality Operators

  1. ===

Introduction to Spark Broadcast Joins

  1. Conceptual overview
  2. Simple example
  3. Analyzing physical plans of joins
  4. Eliminating the duplicate city column
  5. Diving deeper into explain()
  6. Next steps

Partitioning Data in Memory

  1. Intro to partitions
  2. coalesce
  3. Increasing partitions
  4. repartition
  5. Differences between coalesce and repartition
  6. Real World Example

Partitioning on Disk with partitionBy

  1. Memory partitioning vs. disk partitioning
  2. Simple example
  3. partitionBy with repartition(5)
  4. partitionBy with repartition(1)
  5. Partitioning datasets with a max number of files per partition
  6. Partitioning dataset with max rows per file
  7. Partitioning dataset with max rows per file pre Spark 2.2
  8. Small file problem
  9. Conclusion

Fast Filtering with Spark PartitionFilters and PushedFilters

  1. Normal DataFrame filter
  2. partitionBy()
  3. PartitionFilters
  4. PushedFilters
  5. Partitioning in memory vs. partitioning on disk
  6. Disk partitioning with skewed columns
  7. Next steps

Scala Text Editing

  1. Syntax highlighting
  2. Import reminders
  3. Import hints
  4. Argument type checking
  5. Flagging unnecessary imports
  6. When to use text editors and Databricks notebooks?

Structuring Spark Projects

  1. Project name
  2. Package naming convention
  3. Typical library structure
  4. Applications

Introduction to SBT

  1. Sample code
  2. Running SBT commands
  3. build.sbt
  4. libraryDependencies
  5. sbt test
  6. sbt doc
  7. sbt console
  8. sbt package / sbt assembly
  9. sbt clean
  10. Next steps

Managing the SparkSession, The DataFrame Entry Point

  1. Accessing the SparkSession
  2. Example of using the SparkSession
  3. Creating a DataFrame
  4. Reading a DataFrame
  5. Creating a SparkSession
  6. Reusing the SparkSession in the test suite
  7. SparkContext
  8. Conclusion

Testing Spark Applications

  1. Hello World Example
  2. Testing a User Defined Function
  3. A Real Test
  4. How Testing Improves Your Codebase
  5. Running a Single Test File

Environment Specific Config in Spark Scala Projects

  1. Basic use case
  2. Environment specific code anitpattern
  3. Overriding config
  4. Setting the PROJECT_ENV variable for test runs
  5. Other implementations
  6. Next steps

Building Spark JAR Files with SBT

  1. JAR File Basics
  2. Building a Thin JAR File
  3. Building a Fat JAR File
  4. Next Steps

Shading Dependencies in Spark Projects with SBT

  1. When shading is useful
  2. How to shade the spark-daria dependency
  3. Conclusion

Dependency Injection with Spark

  1. Code with a dependency
  2. Injecting a path
  3. Injecting an entire DataFrame
  4. Conclusion

Broadcasting Maps

  1. Simple example
  2. Refactored code
  3. Building Maps from data files
  4. Conclusion

Validating Spark DataFrame Schemas

  1. Custom Transformations Refresher
  2. A Custom Transformation Making a Bad Assumption
  3. Column Presence Validation
  4. Full Schema Validation
  5. Documenting DataFrame Assumptions is Especially Important for Chained DataFrame Transformations
  6. Conclusion

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