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Published inMar 2022
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Sakti Mishra
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Sakti Mishra

Sakti Mishra is an engineer, architect, author, and technology leader with over 16 years of experience in the IT industry. He is currently working as a senior data lab architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is passionate about technologies and has expertise in big data, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, graph networks, web/mobile applications, and cloud technologies such as AWS and Google Cloud Platform. Sakti has a bachelor’s degree in engineering and a master’s degree in business administration. He holds several certifications in Hadoop, Spark, AWS, and Google Cloud. He is also an author of multiple technology blogs, workshops, white papers and is a public speaker who represents AWS in various domains and events.
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Spark ETL and Lambda function code walk-through

You can download the complete code from our GitHub repository specified in the Technical requirements section of the chapter. In this section, we will highlight a few sections of the code to explain its purpose and usage.

Understanding the AWS Lambda function code

The Lambda function's primary objective is to invoke EMR cluster launch and then submit a Spark step.

The following part of the code creates a boto3 client for the EMR service and invokes the run_job_flow method of it such that it takes all the required inputs for the cluster:

conn = boto3.client("emr", region_name=AWS_REGION)        
cluster_id = conn.run_job_flow(…)

The following parameters are passed to the run_job_flow method that specifies the EMR cluster configurations:

Instances={
    "Ec2KeyName": "<key-name>",
    "...
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Published in: Mar 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801071079

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Sakti Mishra

Sakti Mishra is an engineer, architect, author, and technology leader with over 16 years of experience in the IT industry. He is currently working as a senior data lab architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is passionate about technologies and has expertise in big data, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, graph networks, web/mobile applications, and cloud technologies such as AWS and Google Cloud Platform. Sakti has a bachelor’s degree in engineering and a master’s degree in business administration. He holds several certifications in Hadoop, Spark, AWS, and Google Cloud. He is also an author of multiple technology blogs, workshops, white papers and is a public speaker who represents AWS in various domains and events.
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