Set Up Scala Development Environment for Apache Spark in Standalone Mode

Apache Spark Tutorials

17 Apr 2018 | Tutorial | Apache Spark
With the Apache Spark installed through the steps described in last post, this post will introduce you the steps to set up a Scala development environment for Spark and build a WordCount application through Maven and SBT. Althrough Spark can be programmed with either Java, Scala, or Python, this post will focus on Scala. There are a couple of reasons: 1) Spark itself is written in Scala; 2) Scala’s functional programming model is a good fit for distributed processing, thus has less code and boilerplate stuff than Java; 3) Scala compiles to Java bytecode, which gives faster performance than Python. Read More...

Install Python 3 Distributions on a Linux Server
06 Feb 2018 | Tutorial | Python
As a data scientist, I often need to run Python scripts on Linux servers. The vast majority of CentOS/RHEL-based Linux servers use Python 2.6.6, while most of my Python applications are written in Python 3. In additoin, on most of the servers, I don’t have the sudo priviledge, so it needs a little trick to install Python 3 on those servers. This post is a step-by-step instructions on installing Python 3.6 through both Anaconda and Python Gzipped source tarball file on a CentOS/RHEL-based Linux server. Read More...

Install Apache Web Server on Azure Virtual Machine
14 Nov 2017 | Tutorial • Azure | Apache Web Server
Apache HTTP Server is the most used web server software in the world and public cloud services, such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, make setting up a Virtual Private Server(VPS) hosting web applications a lot easier than traditional ways that use physical servers. Unlinke many other tutorials that focus on traditional web hosts and configurations for running PHP and/or .NET applications, this post presents steps of installing and configuring Apache HTTP Web Server on an Azure Ubuntu Virtual Machine to host Flask Web applications. Read More...