Spark Inception: Exploiting the Apache Spark REPL to Build Streaming Notebooks
Description
Join Scott Haines (Databricks Beacon) as he teaches you to write your own Notebook style service (like Jupyter / Zeppelin / Databricks) for both fun (and profit?). Cause haven't we all just been a little curious how Notebook environments work? From the outside things probably seem magical, however just below the surface there is a literal world of possibilities waiting to be exploited (both figuratively and literally) to assist in the building of unimaginable new creations. Curiosity is of course the foundation for creativity and novel ideation, and when armed with the knowledge you'll pick up in this session, you'll have gained an additional perspective and way of thinking (mental model) for solving complex problems using dynamic procedural (on-the-fly) code compilation. Did I mention you'll use Spark Structured Streaming in order to generate a "live" communication channel between your Notebook service and the "outside world"? Overview During this session you'll learn to build your own Notebook-style service on top of Apache Spark & the Scala ILoop. Along the way, you'll uncover how to harness the SparkContext to manage, drive, and scale your own procedurally defined Apache Sp…
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