What you need for this book

Like any development platform, learning to develop systems with Spark takes trial and error. Writing programs, encountering errors, and agonizing over pesky bugs are all part of the process. We assume a basic level of programming – Python or Java and experience in working with operating system commands. We have kept the examples simple and to the point. In terms of resources, we do not assume any esoteric equipment for running the examples and developing code. A normal development machine is enough.