Books

This article was co-authored by Matthew Rathbone image by Thomas Leuthard James Gosling, creator of Java, said: “If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala.” Scala is a hot language in software development today, it is used by a range of start-ups for application development and has been adopted as the unofficial language of big data software development thanks to frameworks like Spark. As a language it is less verbose than Java, and has a number of unique features that make it more flexible too. Scala is both functional, object oriented, and truly multi-threaded – so it provides a very unique development environment. There’s so much to Scala that whatever stage of programming you’re at, you’ll probably want some books! ...

This article was co-authored by Matthew Rathbone image by Ed Robertson Apache Spark is a super useful distributed processing framework that works well with Hadoop and YARN. Many industry users have reported it to be 100x faster than Hadoop MapReduce for in certain memory-heavy tasks, and 10x faster while processing data on disk. While Spark has incredible power, it is not always easy to find good resources or books to learn more about it, so I thought I’d compile a list. I’ll keep this list up to date as new resources come out. ...