Apache Spark, Scala and Storm Training

Learning about the Scala Interpreter, static object timer in Scala and testing string equality in Scala, implicit classes in Scala, the concept of currying in Scala and various classes in Scala

Learning about the Classes concept, understanding the constructor overloading, various abstract classes, the hierarchy types in Scala, the concept of object equality and the val and var methods in Scala

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

Understanding traits in Scala, the advantages of traits, linearization of traits, the Java equivalent and avoiding of boilerplate code

Implementation of traits in Scala and Java and handling of multiple traits extending

Introduction to Scala collections, classification of collections, the difference between Iterator and Iterable in Scala and an example of list sequence in Scala

Two types of collections in Scala, Mutable and Immutable collections, understanding lists and arrays in Scala, the list buffer and array buffer, queue in Scala and double-ended queue Deque, Stacks, Sets, Maps and Tuples in Scala

Introduction to Spark, how Spark overcomes the drawbacks of working on MapReduce, understanding in-memory MapReduce, interactive operations on MapReduce, Spark stack, fine vs. coarse-grained update, Spark stack, Spark Hadoop YARN, HDFS Revision, YARN Revision, the overview of Spark and how it is better than Hadoop, deploying Spark without Hadoop, Spark history server and Cloudera distribution

Spark installation guide, Spark configuration, memory management, executor memory vs. driver memory, working with Spark Shell, the concept of resilient distributed datasets (RDD), learning to do functional programming in Spark and the architecture of Spark

Spark RDD, creating RDDs, RDD partitioning, operations, and transformation in RDD, deep dive into Spark RDDs, the RDD general operations, a read-only partitioned collection of records, using the concept of RDD for faster and efficient data processing, RDD action for collect, count, collects map, save-as-text-files and pair RDD functions

Understanding the concept of Key-Value pair in RDDs, learning how Spark makes MapReduce operations faster, various operations of RDD, MapReduce interactive operations, fine and coarse-grained update and Spark stack

Comparing the Spark applications with Spark Shell, creating a Spark application using Scala or Java, deploying a Spark application, Scala built application, creation of mutable list, set and set operations, list, tuple, concatenating list, creating application using SBT, deploying application using Maven, the web user interface of Spark application, a real-world example of Spark and configuring of Spark

Learning about Spark parallel processing, deploying on a cluster, introduction to Spark partitions, file-based partitioning of RDDs, understanding of HDFS and data locality, mastering the technique of parallel operations, comparing repartition and coalesce and RDD actions

The execution flow in Spark, understanding the RDD persistence overview, Spark execution flow and Spark terminology, distribution shared memory vs. RDD, RDD limitations, Spark shell arguments, distributed persistence, RDD lineage, Key-Value pair for sorting implicit conversions like CountByKey, ReduceByKey, SortByKey and AggregateByKey

Introduction to Machine Learning, types of Machine Learning, introduction to MLlib, various ML algorithms supported by MLlib, Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, Random Forest, K-means clustering techniques and building a Recommendation Engine

Hands-on Exercise:  Building a Recommendation Engine

Why Kafka, what is Kafka, Kafka architecture, Kafka workflow, configuring Kafka cluster, basic operations, Kafka monitoring tools and integrating Apache Flume and Apache Kafka

Hands-on Exercise: Configuring Single Node Single Broker Cluster, Configuring Single Node Multi Broker Cluster, Producing and consuming messages and integrating Apache Flume and Apache Kafka

Introduction to Spark Streaming, features of Spark Streaming, Spark Streaming workflow, initializing StreamingContext, Discretized Streams (DStreams), Input DStreams and Receivers, transformations on DStreams, Output Operations on DStreams, Windowed Operators and why it is useful, important Windowed Operators and Stateful Operators

Hands-on Exercise:  Twitter Sentiment Analysis, streaming using netcat server, Kafka–Spark Streaming and Spark–Flume Streaming

Introduction to various variables in Spark like shared variables and broadcast variables, learning about accumulators, the common performance issues and troubleshooting the performance problems

Learning about Spark SQL, the context of SQL in Spark for providing structured data processing, JSON support in Spark SQL, working with XML data, parquet files, creating Hive context, writing Data Frame to Hive, reading JDBC files, understanding the Data Frames in Spark, creating Data Frames, manual inferring of schema, working with CSV files, reading JDBC tables, Data Frame to JDBC, user-defined functions in Spark SQL, shared variables and accumulators, learning to query and transform data in Data Frames, how Data Frame provides the benefit of both Spark RDD and Spark SQL and deploying Hive on Spark as the execution engine

Learning about the scheduling and partitioning in Spark, hash partition, range partition, scheduling within and around applications, static partitioning, dynamic sharing, fair scheduling, Map partition with index, the Zip, GroupByKey, Spark master high availability, standby masters with ZooKeeper, Single-node Recovery with Local File System and High Order Functions

Big Data characteristics, understanding Hadoop distributed computing, the Bayesian Law, deploying Storm for real-time analytics, Apache Storm features, comparing Storm with Hadoop, Storm execution and learning about Tuple, Spout and Bolt

Installing Apache Storm and various types of run modes of Storm

Understanding Apache Storm and the data model

Installation of Apache Kafka and its configuration

Understanding advanced Storm topics like Spouts, Bolts, Stream Groupings and Topology and its life cycle and learning about guaranteed message processing

Various grouping types in Storm, reliable and unreliable messages, Bolt structure and life cycle, understanding Trident topology for failure handling, process and call log analysis topology for analyzing call logs for calls made from one number to another

Understanding of Trident spouts and its different types, various Trident spout interface and components, familiarizing with Trident filter, aggregator and functions and a practical and hands-on use case on solving call log problem using Storm Trident

Various components, classes and interfaces in Storm like, Base Rich Bolt Class, i RichBolt Interface, i RichSpout Interface and Base Rich Spout class and the various methodologies of working with them

Understanding Cassandra, its core concepts and its strengths and deployment

Twitter Boot Stripping, detailed understanding of Boot Stripping, concepts of Storm and Storm development environment