Chapter 1. Architecture and Installation

This chapter intends to provide and describe the big-picture around Spark, which includes Spark architecture. You will be taken from the higher-level details of the framework to installing Spark and writing your very first program on Spark.

We'll cover the following core topics in this chapter. If you are already familiar with these topics please feel free to jump to the next chapter on Spark: Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs):

Apache Spark architecture overview:

• Apache Spark deployment
• Installing Apache Spark
• Writing your first Spark program
• Submitting applications