Big Data and need for Spark :

• Introduction to Big Data
• Challenges with old Big Data solutions
• Batch vs Real-time vs in-Memory processing MapReduce and its limitations
• Apache Storm and its limitations
• Need for general purpose solution – Apache Spark

SharePoint Development :

• Web Parts Overview
• Default Web Parts inApacheSpark & Scala 2010/2013
• Web Part Life Cycle
• Web Parts Development using Web Part Template
• Web Parts Development using Visual Web Part Template

Deep Dive in Apache Spark:

• What is Apache Spark?
• Internals of Spark architecture
• Apache Spark design principles
• Spark features and characteristics
• Apache Spark Eco-system components and their insights

Deploy Spark in Local mode:

• Setup of Spark Environment
• Install and configure prerequisites
• Installation of Apache Spark in local mode
• Work with Spark in local mode
• Troubleshooting the encountered problems

Deploy Apache Spark in different modes:

• Installation of Spark in standalone mode
• Installation of Spark in YARN mode
• Installation & configuration of Spark on a real multi-node cluster
• Play with Spark in cluster mode
• Best practices for Spark deployment

Demystify Apache Spark:

• Play with Spark shell
• Execute Scala and Java statements in shell
• Understand Spark Context and driver
• Read data from local filesystem
• Integrate Spark with HDFS
• Cache the data in memory for further use
• Distributed persistence
• Testing and troubleshooting

Basic Abstraction RDDs :

• What is RDD in Spark
• How RDDs make Spark a feature rich framework
• Transformations in Apache Spark RDDs
• Spark RDDs action and persistence
• Spark Lazy operations - Transformation as well as Caching
• Fault tolerance in Spark
• Load data and create RDD in Spark
• Persist RDD in memory or disk
• Pair operations and key-value in Spark
• Spark Integration with Hadoop
• Apache Spark practicals and workshops

Spark streaming :

• Need for stream analytics
• Comparison with Storm and S4
• Real-time data processing using Spark streaming
• Fault tolerance and check-pointing
• Stateful Stream Processing
• DStream and window operations
• Spark Stream execution flow
• Connection to various source systems
• Performance optimizations in Spark

Spark-SQL :

• What is Spark SQL
• Apache Spark SQL Features and Data flow
• Spark SQL architecture and components
• Hive and Spark SQL together
• Play with Data frames and Data states
• Data loading techniques in Spark
• Hive Queries through Spark
• Various Spark SQL DDL and DML operations
• Performance tuning in SparK

Spark MLlib and Spark GraphX :

• Need for Machine Learning
• Introduction to Spark machine learning
• Various Spark ML libraries
• Algorithms for clustering, statistical analytics, classification etc.
• Introduction to GraphX
• Need for different graph processing engine
• Graph handling using Apache Spark