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Spark Environments

Explore different Spark deployment options including self-hosted clusters, cloud services such as AWS EMR and GCP Cloud Dataproc, and vendor-managed environments like Databricks. Learn the considerations for choosing an ecosystem based on cost, scalability, and multi-tenancy. Understand how to start quickly with PySpark in notebook environments and stay updated with the evolving Spark ecosystem to build scalable batch pipelines.



There are a variety of ways to both configure Spark clusters and submit commands to a cluster for execution. When getting started with PySpark as a data scientist, my recommendation is to use a freely-available notebook environment for getting up and running with Spark as quickly as ...

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