The Architecture of Apache Spark

In this article, we’ll delve into Apache Spark.

We’ll talk about

• History of MapReduce, how it works and issues

• The creation of Apache Spark

• Overview of Spark

• Why is Spark fast

• Spark’s Architecture

• Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs)

and more!

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