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Useful classes for data engineers - Scala & Java

Waitingforcode

In this blog post I'll share with you a list of Java and Scala classes I use almost every time in data engineering projects. The part for Python will follow next week! We all have our habits and as programmers, libraries and frameworks are definitely a part of the group.

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Making applyInPandasWithState less painful

Waitingforcode

However, due to Python duck typing, some operations are more difficult and more risky to express in the code than in the strongly typed Scala API. Do not get the title wrong! Having applyInPandasWithState in the PySpark API is huge!

Scala 147
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Scala Vs Python Vs R Vs Java - Which language is better for Spark & Why?

Knowledge Hut

Click here to learn more about sys.argv command line argument in Python. If you search top and highly effective programming languages for Big Data on Google, you will find the following top 4 programming languages: Java Scala Python R Java Java is one of the oldest languages of all 4 programming languages listed here.

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Unity Catalog Lakeguard: Industry-first and only data governance for multi-user Apache™ Spark clusters

databricks

Run SQL, Python & Scala workloads with full data governance & cost-efficient multi-user compute. Unlock the power of Apache Spark™ with Unity Catalog Lakeguard on Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

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Learn how to use PySpark in under 5 minutes (Installation + Tutorial)

KDnuggets

Apache Spark is one of the hottest and largest open source project in data processing framework with rich high-level APIs for the programming languages like Scala, Python, Java and R. It realizes the potential of bringing together both Big Data and machine learning.

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The Dog Days of PySpark

Confessions of a Data Guy

PySpark is the abstraction that lets a bazillion Data Engineers forget about that blight Scala and cuddle their wonderfully soft and ever-kind Python code, while choking down gobs of data like some Harkonnen glutton. One of those things to hate and love, well … kinda hard not to love.

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Building ETL Pipeline with Snowpark

Cloudyard

Snowflakes Snowpark is a game-changing feature that enables data engineers and analysts to write scalable data transformation workflows directly within Snowflake using Python, Java, or Scala.