Learn how to use, deploy, and maintain Apache Spark with this comprehensive guide, written by the creators of the open-source cluster-computing framework. With an emphasis on improvements and new features in Spark 2.0, authors Bill Chambers and Matei Zaharia break down Spark topics into distinct sections, each with unique goals.Youâ??ll explore the basic operations and common functions of Sparkâ??s structured APIs, as well as Structured Streaming, a new high-level API for building ...

Bill Chambers' book My Chicago Activist Life: From Ireland to Palestine 1968-2025 is unlike any other memoir. Not only is it one person's activist life but also an over 50-year participant history of the major social justice movements in Chicago. Beginning with Anti-Racism organizing; 1968 Democratic Convention Protests; Stopping the Vietnam War; Northwestern Student Strike; Irish Republican Fight for United Ireland; Palestine Solidarity; Black Lives Matter; Commu...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...