Apache Spark and Scala Certification Training Course in Chicago

2.1 The importance of Scala
2.2 The concept of REPL (Read Evaluate Print Loop)
2.3 Deep dive into Scala pattern matching
2.4 Type interface, higher-order function, currying, traits, application space and Scala for data analysis

3.1 Learning about the Scala Interpreter
3.2 Static object timer in Scala and testing string equality in Scala
3.3 Implicit classes in Scala
3.4 The concept of currying in Scala
3.5 Various classes in Scala

4.1 Learning about the Classes concept
4.2 Understanding the constructor overloading
4.3 Various abstract classes
4.4 The hierarchy types in Scala
4.5 The concept of object equality
4.6 The val and var methods in Scala

5.1 Understanding sealed traits, wild, constructor, tuple, variable pattern, and constant pattern

6.1 Understanding traits in Scala
6.2 The advantages of traits
6.3 Linearization of traits
6.4 The Java equivalent
6.5 Avoiding of boilerplate code

7.1 Implementation of traits in Scala and Java
7.2 Handling of multiple traits extending

8.1 Introduction to Scala collections
8.2 Classification of collections
8.3 The difference between iterator and iterable in Scala
8.4 Example of list sequence in Scala

9.1 The two types of collections in Scala
9.2 Mutable and immutable collections
9.3 Understanding lists and arrays in Scala
9.4 The list buffer and array buffer
9.6 Queue in Scala
9.7 Double-ended queue Deque, Stacks, Sets, Maps, and Tuples in Scala

10.1 Introduction to Scala packages and imports
10.2 The selective imports
10.3 The Scala test classes
10.4 Introduction to JUnit test class
10.5 JUnit interface via JUnit 3 suite for Scala test
10.6 Packaging of Scala applications in the directory structure
10.7 Examples of Spark Split and Spark Scala

11.1 Introduction to Spark
11.2 Spark overcomes the drawbacks of working on MapReduce
11.3 Understanding in-memory MapReduce
11.4 Interactive operations on MapReduce
11.5 Spark stack, fine vs. coarse-grained update,, Spark Hadoop YARN, HDFS Revision, and YARN Revision
11.6 The overview of Spark and how it is better than Hadoop
11.7 Deploying Spark without Hadoop
11.8 Spark history server and Cloudera distribution

12.1 Spark installation guide
12.2 Spark configuration
12.3 Memory management
12.4 Executor memory vs. driver memory
12.5 Working with Spark Shell
12.6 The concept of resilient distributed datasets (RDD)
12.7 Learning to do functional programming in Spark
12.8 The architecture of Spark

13.1 Spark RDD
13.2 Creating RDDs
13.3 RDD partitioning
13.4 Operations and transformation in RDD
13.5 Deep dive into Spark RDDs
13.6 The RDD general operations
13.7 Read-only partitioned collection of records
13.8 Using the concept of RDD for faster and efficient data processing
13.9 RDD action for the collect, count, collects map, save-as-text-files, and pair RDD functions

14.1 Understanding the concept of key-value pair in RDDs
14.2 Learning how Spark makes MapReduce operations faster
14.3 Various operations of RDD
14.4 MapReduce interactive operations
14.5 Fine and coarse-grained update
14.6 Spark stack

15.1 Comparing the Spark applications with Spark Shell
15.2 Creating a Spark application using Scala or Java
15.3 Deploying a Spark application
15.4 Scala built application
15.5 Creation of the mutable list, set and set operations, list, tuple, and concatenating list
15.6 Creating an application using SBT
15.7 Deploying an application using Maven
15.8 The web user interface of Spark application
15.9 A real-world example of Spark
15.10 Configuring of Spark

16.1 Learning about Spark parallel processing
16.2 Deploying on a cluster
16.3 Introduction to Spark partitions
16.4 File-based partitioning of RDDs
16.5 Understanding of HDFS and data locality
16.6 Mastering the technique of parallel operations
16.7 Comparing repartition and coalesce
16.8 RDD actions

17.1 The execution flow in Spark
17.2 Understanding the RDD persistence overview
17.3 Spark execution flow, and Spark terminology
17.4 Distribution shared memory vs. RDD
17.5 RDD limitations
17.6 Spark shell arguments
17.7 Distributed persistence
17.8 RDD lineage
17.9 Key-value pair for sorting implicit conversions like CountByKey, ReduceByKey, SortByKey, and AggregateByKey

18.1 Introduction to Machine Learning
18.2 Types of Machine Learning
18.3 Introduction to MLlib
18.4 Various ML algorithms supported by MLlib
18.5 Linear regression, logistic regression, decision tree, random forest, and K-means clustering techniques

Hands-on Exercise: 
1. Building a Recommendation Engine

19.1 Why Kafka and what is Kafka?
19.2 Kafka architecture
19.3 Kafka workflow
19.4 Configuring Kafka cluster
19.5 Operations
19.6 Kafka monitoring tools
19.7 Integrating Apache Flume and Apache Kafka

Hands-on Exercise: 
1. Configuring Single Node Single Broker Cluster
2. Configuring Single Node Multi Broker Cluster
3. Producing and consuming messages
4. Integrating Apache Flume and Apache Kafka

20.1 Introduction to Spark Streaming
20.2 Features of Spark Streaming
20.3 Spark Streaming workflow
20.4 Initializing StreamingContext, discretized Streams (DStreams), input DStreams and Receivers
20.5 Transformations on DStreams, output operations on DStreams, windowed operators and why it is useful
20.6 Important windowed operators and stateful operators

Hands-on Exercise: 
1. Twitter Sentiment analysis
2. Streaming using Netcat server
3. Kafka–Spark streaming
4. Spark–Flume streaming

21.1 Introduction to various variables in Spark like shared variables and broadcast variables
21.2 Learning about accumulators
21.3 The common performance issues
21.4 Troubleshooting the performance problems

22.1 Learning about Spark SQL
22.2 The context of SQL in Spark for providing structured data processing
22.3 JSON support in Spark SQL
22.4 Working with XML data
22.5 Parquet files
22.6 Creating Hive context
22.7 Writing data frame to Hive
22.8 Reading JDBC files
22.9 Understanding the data frames in Spark
22.10 Creating Data Frames
22.11 Manual inferring of schema
22.12 Working with CSV files
22.13 Reading JDBC tables
22.14 Data frame to JDBC
22.15 User-defined functions in Spark SQL
22.16 Shared variables and accumulators
22.17 Learning to query and transform data in data frames
22.18 Data frame provides the benefit of both Spark RDD and Spark SQL
22.19 Deploying Hive on Spark as the execution engine

23.1 Learning about the scheduling and partitioning in Spark
23.2 Hash partition
23.3 Range partition
23.4 Scheduling within and around applications
23.5 Static partitioning, dynamic sharing, and fair scheduling
23.6 Map partition with index, the Zip, and GroupByKey
23.7 Spark master high availability, standby masters with ZooKeeper, single-node recovery with the local file system and high order functions