Beginning Apache Spark Using Azure Databricks: Unleashing Large Cluster Analytics in the Cloud

Being as this book is brand new and has no reviews, I wanted to give my first impression.I have only finished the first chapter, but so far so good. This is professionally written and there is a bit of humor, so the read isn’t dry and boring. He covers background, history and related topics to give you a good understanding, but not in too much detail that you want to skip it.I will try to update my review as I progress through the book. But my initial feelings says to go for it if you are interested in “big data.”

The book has almost no screenshots, making the read annoyinly hard to follow. The examples should have both the commands and screenshots of the results. Even the SPARK UI section has no screenshot, only text!