Benefits of and Tips on Hortonworks Apache Spark Certification
Recently, I took hands-on, performance-based certification for Spark on the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDPCD), and in this article I will share what benefits one gets from the certification process, and some tips on how to prepare for it.
You can get the full article with some tips on how to prepare for the test here
My previous articles on using Spark on various topics:
1. Machine Learning with Text in PySpark - Part 1
2. Leveraging Hive with Spark using Python
3. Analyzing the Bible and the Quran using Spark
4. Spark DataFrames: Exploring Chicago Crimes
5. Spark RDDs vs DataFrames vs SparkSQL - part 1: Retrieving, Sorting and Filtering
6. Spark RDDs Vs DataFrames vs SparkSQL - Part 2 : Working With Multiple Tables
7. Spark RDDs Vs DataFrames vs SparkSQL - Part 3 : Web Server Log Analysis
8. Spark RDDs Vs DataFrames vs SparkSQL - Part 4 : Set Operators
9. Spark RDDs Vs DataFrames vs SparkSQL - Part 5: Using Functions