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Spark on AWS EMR – The Missing Manual

Apache Spark recently received top level support on Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) cloud offering, joining applications such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, HBase, Presto, and Impala. This is exciting for me, because most of my workloads run on EMR, …

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Debugging Apache Spark Jobs

Would you like to step through your Spark job in a debugger? These steps show you how to configure IntelliJ IDEA to allow just that. Unlike a traditional Java or Scala application, Spark jobs expect to be run …

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Apache Spark on EC2

Its easy to get started with Apache Spark. You can get a template for a Scala job using the Typesafe Activator and have it running on a local cluster with a small dataset. You can also use a handy …