• Jacek Laskowski is an independent consultant
  • Specializing in Spark, Kafka, Mesos, DC/OS, Scala
• Among contributors to Spark 2.1, Spark 2.0 (since 1.6.0)
• Contact me at jacek@japila.pl or follow me on twitter at @JacekLaskowski <-- and learn more Spark!
• Delivering Development Services | Consulting | Training
• Leader of Warsaw Scala Enthusiasts and Warsaw Apache Spark
• Java Champion

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Prerequisities (1 of 3)

1. Some programming experience using modern programming language, e.g. Scala, Python, Java, F#

Prerequisities (2 of 3)

1. Installed
   • Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 8
   • IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition with Scala plugin
   • sbt
   • PostgreSQL
   • Apache Kafka
   • Apache Hadoop 2.7.3 (not Hadoop 3.0.0-alpha2)

Prerequisities (3 of 3)

1. Downloaded
   • Apache Spark
   • PostgreSQL JDBC Driver