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Published inJul 2017
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ISBN-139781787126497
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Sourav Gulati
Sourav Gulati
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Sourav Gulati

Sourav Gulati is associated with software industry for more than 7 years. He started his career with Unix/Linux and Java and then moved towards big data and NoSQL World. He has worked on various big data projects. He has recently started a technical blog called Technical Learning as well. Apart from IT world, he loves to read about mythology.
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Sumit Kumar
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Sumit Kumar

Sumit Kumar is a developer with industry insights in telecom and banking. At different junctures, he has worked as a Java and SQL developer, but it is shell scripting that he finds both challenging and satisfying at the same time. Currently, he delivers big data projects focused on batch/near-real-time analytics and the distributed indexed querying system. Besides IT, he takes a keen interest in human and ecological issues.
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Introducing Spark Streaming


With the advancement and expansion of big data technologies, most of the companies have shifted their focus towards data-driven decision making. It has now become an essential and integral part of the business. In the current world, not only the analytics is important, but also how early it is made available is important. Offline data analytics, as known as batch analytics, help in providing analytics on the history data. On the other hand, online data analytics showcase what is happening in real time. It helps organizations to take decisions as early as possible to keep themselves ahead of their competitors. Online analytics/near real time analytics is done by reading incoming streams of data, for example user activities for e-commerce websites, and process those streams to get valuable results.

The Spark Streaming API is a library that allows you to process data from live streams at near real time. It provides high scalability, fault tolerance, high throughput...

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Published in: Jul 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787126497

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Sourav Gulati

Sourav Gulati is associated with software industry for more than 7 years. He started his career with Unix/Linux and Java and then moved towards big data and NoSQL World. He has worked on various big data projects. He has recently started a technical blog called Technical Learning as well. Apart from IT world, he loves to read about mythology.
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Sumit Kumar

Sumit Kumar is a developer with industry insights in telecom and banking. At different junctures, he has worked as a Java and SQL developer, but it is shell scripting that he finds both challenging and satisfying at the same time. Currently, he delivers big data projects focused on batch/near-real-time analytics and the distributed indexed querying system. Besides IT, he takes a keen interest in human and ecological issues.
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