Preface
Looking back at the last year and a half, I can’t help but wonder: how on Earth did I manage to survive this? These were the busiest 18 months of my life! Ever since Manning asked Marko and me to write a book about Spark, I have spent most of my free time on Apache Spark. And that made this period all the more interesting. I learned a lot, and I can honestly say it was worth it.
Spark is a super-hot topic these days. It was conceived in Berkeley, California, in 2009 by Matei Zaharia (initially as an attempt to prove the Mesos execution platform feasible) and was open sourced in 2010. In 2013, it was donated to the Apache Software Foundation, and it has been the target of lightning-fast development ever since. In 2015, Spark was one ...
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