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Apache Spark™ Programming with Databricks
In this course, you will explore the fundamentals of Apache Spark and Delta Lake on Databricks. You will learn the architectural components of Spark, the DataFrame and Structured Streaming APIs, and...
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In this course, you will explore the fundamentals of Apache Spark and Delta Lake on Databricks. You will learn the architectural components of Spark, the DataFrame and Structured Streaming APIs, and how Delta Lake can improve your data pipelines. Lastly, you will execute streaming queries to process streaming data and understand the advantages of using Delta Lake.
- This course will prepare you to take the Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark exam.
Skills Gained
- Define Spark’s architectural components
- Describe how DataFrames are transformed, executed, and optimized in Spark
- Apply the DataFrame API to explore, preprocess, join, and ingest data in Spark
- Apply the Structured Streaming API to perform analysis on streaming data
- Use Delta Lake to improve the quality and performance of data pipelines
Prerequisites
- Completion of Introduction to Python for Data Science & Data Engineering, OR familiarity with Python and basic programming concepts, including data types, lists, dictionaries, variables, functions, loops, conditional statements, exception handling, accessing classes, and using third-party libraries
- Basic knowledge of SQL, including writing queries using SELECT, WHERE, GROUP BY, ORDER BY, LIMIT, and JOIN
Course Details
Course Outline
Day 1
- Spark overview
- Databricks platform overview
- Spark SQL
- DataFrame reader, writer, transformation, and aggregation
- Datetimes
- Complex types
Day 2
- User-defined functions (UDFs) and vectorized UDFs
- Spark internals
- Query optimization
- Partitioning
- Streaming API
- Delta Lake
Schedule
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Reviews
Joel was awesome ,knows his stuff well and explains nicely and just amazing !! the course materials were awesome !! Very nicely designed class !! Very very satisfied .. Keep up the good work !!
Instructor was great, he was to the point. He did great job explaining the concepts and providing the content.
Joel is a great teacher and I enjoyed his jokes and can-do attitude. He was very helpful in finding and answering questions and had lots of insight showing his understanding of databricks topics. He also had extra materials prepared that helped further my understanding.
I liked that Joel had a lot of background to why things were built the way they were. Having background helps understand the features better.
I enjoyed the interactive nature of the instructor demoing the notebooks and having my own copy to follow along with. The instructor had a lot of good knowledge beyond just the prepared material and kept the class lively.
