Apache Spark Courses and Certifications

AWS Events

Click and Upgrade - Modernize Your Spark Environment in Minutes

Discover how to quickly modernize your Apache Spark environment using AWS tools and best practices in this live technical session.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Databricks

Gazelle-JNI: Offloading Spark SQL to Native Engines for Execution Acceleration

Explore Gazelle-Jni, a middle layer integrating native SQL engines with Spark SQL for accelerated execution through Substrait-transformed physical plan offloading.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Databricks

Turbocharging Spark with Samsung SmartSSD Computational Storage Devices

Discover how Samsung SmartSSD® with Xilinx FPGAs accelerates Spark, offering 2x-8x performance gains without code changes. Learn about the technology, benchmarks, and TCO savings.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Databricks

Simplify and Boost Spark 3 Deployments with Hypervisor-Native Kubernetes

Explore integrating Spark 3 with VMware Pacific for scalable, reliable, and high-performance big data analytics deployments using hypervisor-native Kubernetes on vSphere 7.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Open Data Science

State of the Art Natural Language Understanding at Scale - David Talby

Explore state-of-the-art NLP techniques using Apache Spark, covering core algorithms, distributed pipelines, and performance optimizations for large-scale language understanding applications.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Databricks

Care and Feeding of Catalyst Optimizer - Practical Troubleshooting for Spark SQL

Explore Spark's Catalyst Optimizer challenges, including UDF issues, codegen limitations, and JVM tuning. Learn to diagnose and solve complex query problems for improved Spark SQL performance.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

LASCON

Securing the Spark Fire Hose - 2016

Learn to secure Apache Spark in big data analytics. Explore code and configuration security, data protection strategies, and integration with common technologies to safeguard critical information throughout its lifecycle.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Automating Cloud-native Spark Jobs with Argo Workflows

Learn to orchestrate Spark jobs on Kubernetes using Argo Workflows, exploring architecture, resource management, and scaling advantages for efficient large-scale data processing in cloud-native environments.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Spark and Python for Big Data with PySpark

26317 ratings at Udemy

Learn how to use Spark with Python, including Spark Streaming, Machine Learning, Spark 2.0 DataFrames and more!

• Udemy
• 10 hours 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Paid Course

Apache Spark and Databricks for Beginners: Learn Hands-On

1019 ratings at Udemy

Learn Apache Spark, PySpark, and Databricks for Modern Data Engineering: Using Databricks Community Edition

• Udemy
• 8 hours 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Paid Course

Spark Tutorials for Beginners

Learn Apache Spark fundamentals, including RDDs, SQL, streaming, and architecture. Hands-on tutorials cover setup, programming, and advanced concepts for big data processing.

• YouTube
• 5 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Scala Days Conferences

Beyond Shuffling - Scaling Apache Spark

Scaling Apache Spark: best practices for large datasets, performance optimization, and efficient data processing techniques. Covers counters, key/value operations, caching, and functional transformations with Datasets.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Devoxx

Introduction to ML with Apache Spark MLlib

Learn to apply machine learning using Apache Spark MLlib for tasks like regression, classification, and clustering. Discover how Java engineers can leverage ML techniques to solve practical problems and distinguish music genres.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

GOTO Conferences

Apache Spark Beyond Shuffling - Why it isn't Magic - but also where there is some really cool Magic

Apache Spark performance deep dive: scaling challenges, RDD operations, key skew issues, and optimization techniques for distributed data processing. Insights from an IBM Spark engineer.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Microcredential

Data Streaming

147 ratings at Udacity

Develop real-time data processing skills using Apache Spark, Kafka, and streaming technologies. Build fluency in modern data engineering tools and create live analytics applications.

• Udacity
• 53 hours
• On-Demand
• Paid Course