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<h2>Spark Documentation</h2>
<p>Setup instructions, programming guides, and other documentation are available for each version of Spark below:</p>
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<li><a href="{{site.url}}docs/latest/">Spark 1.5.1 (latest release)</a></li>
<li><a href="{{site.url}}docs/1.5.0/">Spark 1.5.0</a></li>
<li><a href="{{site.url}}docs/1.4.1/">Spark 1.4.1</a></li>
<li><a href="{{site.url}}docs/1.4.0/">Spark 1.4.0</a></li>
<li><a href="{{site.url}}docs/1.3.1/">Spark 1.3.1</a></li>
<li><a href="{{site.url}}docs/1.3.0/">Spark 1.3.0</a></li>
<li><a href="{{site.url}}docs/1.2.1/">Spark 1.2.1</a></li>
<li><a href="{{site.url}}docs/1.1.1/">Spark 1.1.1</a></li>
<li><a href="{{site.url}}docs/1.0.2/">Spark 1.0.2</a></li>
<li><a href="{{site.url}}docs/0.9.2/">Spark 0.9.2</a></li>
<li><a href="{{site.url}}docs/0.8.1/">Spark 0.8.1</a></li>
<li><a href="{{site.url}}docs/0.7.3/">Spark 0.7.3</a></li>
<li><a href="{{site.url}}docs/0.6.2/">Spark 0.6.2</a></li>
</ul>
<p>The documentation linked to above covers getting started with Spark, as well the built-in components <a href="{{site.url}}docs/latest/mllib-guide.html">MLlib</a>,
<a href="{{site.url}}docs/latest/streaming-programming-guide.html">Spark Streaming</a>, and <a href="{{site.url}}docs/latest/graphx-guide.html">GraphX</a>.</p>
<p>In addition, this page lists other resources for learning Spark.</p>
<h3>Videos</h3>
See the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzsq7k4-kT-h3TDUBQ82-w">Apache Spark YouTube Channel</a> for videos from Spark events. There are separate <a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRzsq7k4-kT-h3TDUBQ82-w/playlists">playlists</a> for videos of different topics. Besides browsing through playlists, you can also find direct links to videos below.
<h4>Screencast Tutorial Videos</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="{{site.url}}screencasts/1-first-steps-with-spark.html">Screencast 1: First Steps with Spark</a></li>
<li><a href="{{site.url}}screencasts/2-spark-documentation-overview.html">Screencast 2: Spark Documentation Overview</a></li>
<li><a href="{{site.url}}screencasts/3-transformations-and-caching.html">Screencast 3: Transformations and Caching</a></li>
<li><a href="{{site.url}}screencasts/4-a-standalone-job-in-spark.html">Screencast 4: A Spark Standalone Job in Scala</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Spark Summit Videos</h4>
<ul>
<li>Videos from Spark Summit 2014, San Francisco, June 30 - July 2 2013
<ul>
<li><a href="http://spark-summit.org/2014/agenda">Full agenda with links to all videos and slides</a></li>
<li><a href="http://spark-summit.org/2014/training">Training videos and slides</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Videos from Spark Summit 2013, San Francisco, Dec 2-3 2013
<ul>
<li><a href="http://spark-summit.org/2013#agendapluginwidget-4">Full agenda with links to all videos and slides</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-x35fyliRwjXj33QvAXN0Vlx0gc6u0je">YouTube playist of all Keynotes</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-x35fyliRwiNcKwIkDEQZBejiqxEJ79U">YouTube playist of Track A (Spark Applications)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-x35fyliRwiNcKwIkDEQZBejiqxEJ79U">YouTube playist of Track B (Spark Deployment, Scheduling & Perf, Related projects)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-x35fyliRwjR1Umntxz52zv3EcKpbzCp">YouTube playist of the Training Day (i.e. the 2nd day of the summit)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4><a name="meetup-videos"></a>Meetup Talk Videos</h4>
In addition to the videos listed below, you can also view <a href="http://www.meetup.com/spark-users/files/">all slides from Bay Area meetups here</a>.
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<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUQ-8to2XAk&list=PL-x35fyliRwiP3YteXbnhk0QGOtYLBT3a">Spark 1.0 and Beyond</a> (<a href="http://files.meetup.com/3138542/Spark%201.0%20Meetup.ppt">slides</a>) <span class="video-meta-info">by Patrick Wendell, at Cisco in San Jose, 2014-04-23</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju2OQEXqONU&list=PL-x35fyliRwiP3YteXbnhk0QGOtYLBT3a">Adding Native SQL Support to Spark with Catalyst</a> (<a href="http://files.meetup.com/3138542/Spark%20SQL%20Meetup%20-%204-8-2012.pdf">slides</a>) <span class="video-meta-info">by Michael Armbrust, at Tagged in SF, 2014-04-08</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY0NkZY_tJw&list=PL-x35fyliRwiP3YteXbnhk0QGOtYLBT3a">SparkR and GraphX</a> (slides: <a href="http://files.meetup.com/3138542/SparkR-meetup.pdf">SparkR</a>, <a href="http://files.meetup.com/3138542/graphx%40spark_meetup03_2014.pdf">GraphX</a>) <span class="video-meta-info">by Shivaram Venkataraman & Dan Crankshaw, at SkyDeck in Berkeley, 2014-03-25</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5niXiiEX5pE&list=PL-x35fyliRwiP3YteXbnhk0QGOtYLBT3a">Simple deployment w/ SIMR & Advanced Shark Analytics w/ TGFs</a> (<a href="http://files.meetup.com/3138542/tgf.pptx">slides</a>) <span class="video-meta-info">by Ali Ghodsi, at Huawei in Santa Clara, 2014-02-05</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7gWtxelYNM&list=PL-x35fyliRwiP3YteXbnhk0QGOtYLBT3a">Stores, Monoids & Dependency Injection - Abstractions for Spark</a> (<a href="http://files.meetup.com/3138542/Abstractions%20for%20spark%20streaming%20-%20spark%20meetup%20presentation.pdf">slides</a>) <span class="video-meta-info">by Ryan Weald, at Sharethrough in SF, 2014-01-17</span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxDnF_X4M-8">Distributed Machine Learning using MLbase</a> (<a href="http://files.meetup.com/3138542/sparkmeetup_8_6_13_final_reduced.pdf">slides</a>) <span class="video-meta-info">by Evan Sparks & Ameet Talwalkar, at Twitter in SF, 2013-08-06</span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJQ2RZj9hqs">GraphX Preview: Graph Analysis on Spark</a> <span class="video-meta-info">by Reynold Xin & Joseph Gonzalez, at Flurry in SF, 2013-07-02</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1knCQZQQnw">Deep Dive with Spark Streaming</a> (<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/spark-project/deep-divewithsparkstreaming-tathagatadassparkmeetup20130617">slides</a>) <span class="video-meta-info">by Tathagata Das, at Plug and Play in Sunnyvale, 2013-06-17</span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAZ624-69PQ">Tachyon and Shark update</a> (slides: <a href="http://files.meetup.com/3138542/2013-05-09%20Shark%20%40%20Spark%20Meetup.pdf">Shark</a>, <a href="http://files.meetup.com/3138542/Tachyon_2013-05-09_Spark_Meetup.pdf">Tachyon</a>) <span class="video-meta-info">by Ali Ghodsi, Haoyuan Li, Reynold Xin, Google Ventures, 2013-05-09</span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxwbieuTaYXmWTBovyyw2NibPfUaJk-h4">Spark 0.7: Overview, pySpark, & Streaming</a> <span class="video-meta-info">by Matei Zaharia, Josh Rosen, Tathagata Das, at Conviva on 2013-02-21</span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Hr5xZyTEA">Introduction to Spark Internals</a> (<a href="http://files.meetup.com/3138542/dev-meetup-dec-2012.pptx">slides</a>) <span class="video-meta-info">by Matei Zaharia, at Yahoo in Sunnyvale, 2012-12-18</span></li>
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<h3>Training Materials</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://spark-summit.org/2014/training">Training materials and exercises from Spark Summit 2014</a> are available online. These include videos and slides of talks as well as exercises you can run on your laptop. Topics include Spark core, tuning and debugging, Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, GraphX and MLlib.</li>
<li><a href="http://spark-summit.org/2013">Spark Summit 2013</a> included a training session, with slides and videos available on <a href="http://spark-summit.org/summit-2013/#agendapluginwidget-5">the training day agenda</a>.
The session also included <a href="http://spark-summit.org/2013/exercises/">exercises</a> that you can walk through on Amazon EC2.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/">UC Berkeley AMPLab</a> regularly hosts training camps on Spark and related projects.
Slides, videos and EC2-based exercises from each of these are available online:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/4/">AMP Camp 4</a> (Strata Santa Clara, Feb 2014) — focus on BlinkDB, MLlib, GraphX, Tachyon</li>
<li><a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/3/">AMP Camp 3</a> (Berkeley, CA, Aug 2013)</li>
<li><a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/amp-camp-two-strata-2013/">AMP Camp 2</a> (Strata Santa Clara, Feb 2013)</li>
<li><a href="http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/agenda-2012/">AMP Camp 1</a> (Berkeley, CA, Aug 2012)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Hands-On Exercises</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://spark-summit.org/2014/training">Hands-on exercises from Spark Summit 2014</a>. These let you install Spark on your laptop and learn basic concepts, Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, GraphX and MLlib.</li>
<li><a href="http://spark-summit.org/2013/exercises/">Hands-on exercises from Spark Summit 2013</a>. These exercises let you launch a small EC2 cluster, load a dataset, and query it with Spark, Shark, Spark Streaming, and MLlib.</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Tutorials, Blog Posts, and Talks</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://engineering.ooyala.com/blog/using-parquet-and-scrooge-spark">Using Parquet and Scrooge with Spark</a> — Scala-friendly Parquet and Avro usage tutorial from Ooyala's Evan Chan</li>
<li><a href="http://codeforhire.com/2014/02/18/using-spark-with-mongodb/">Using Spark with MongoDB</a> — by Sampo Niskanen from Wellmo</li>
<li><a href="http://spark-summit.org/2013">Spark Summit 2013</a> — contained 30 talks about Spark use cases, available as slides and videos</li>
<li><a href="http://www.pwendell.com/2013/09/28/declarative-streams.html">Sampling Twitter Using Declarative Streams</a> — Spark Streaming tutorial by Patrick Wendell</li>
<li><a href="http://zenfractal.com/2013/08/21/a-powerful-big-data-trio/">A Powerful Big Data Trio: Spark, Parquet and Avro</a> — Using Parquet in Spark by Matt Massie</li>
<li><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/EvanChan2/cassandra2013-spark-talk-final">Real-time Analytics with Cassandra, Spark, and Shark</a> — Presentation by Evan Chan from Ooyala at 2013 Cassandra Summit</li>
<li><a href="http://syndeticlogic.net/?p=311">Getting Spark Setup in Eclipse</a> — Developer blog post by James Percent</li>
<li><a href="http://aws.amazon.com/articles/Elastic-MapReduce/4926593393724923">Run Spark and Shark on Amazon Elastic MapReduce</a> — Article by Amazon Elastic MapReduce team member Parviz Deyhim</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.quantifind.com/posts/spark-unit-test/">Unit testing with Spark</a> — Quantifind tech blog post by Imran Rashid</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.quantifind.com/posts/logging-post/">Configuring Spark logs</a> — Quantifind tech blog by Imran Rashid</li>
<li><a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-spark/">Spark, an alternative for fast data analytics</a> — IBM Developer Works article by M. Tim Jones</li>
</ul>
<h3>Books</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028512.do">Learning Spark</a>, by Holden Karau, Andy Konwinski, Patrick Wendell and Matei Zaharia (O'Reilly Media)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.manning.com/bonaci/">Spark in Action</a>, by Marko Bonaci and Petar Zecevic (Manning)</li>
<li><a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920035091.do">Advanced Analytics with Spark</a>, by Sandy Ryza, Uri Laserson, Sean Owen and Josh Wills (O'Reilly Media)</li>
<li><a href="http://manning.com/malak/">Spark GraphX in Action</a>, by Michael Malak (Manning)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/fast-data-processing-spark-second-edition">Fast Data Processing with Spark</a>, by Krishna Sankar and Holden Karau (Packt Publishing)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/machine-learning-spark">Machine Learning with Spark</a>, by Nick Pentreath (Packt Publishing)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/spark-cookbook">Spark Cookbook</a>, by Rishi Yadav (Packt Publishing)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Examples</h3>
<ul>
<li>The <a href="{{site.url}}examples.html">Spark examples page</a> shows the basic API in Scala, Java and Python.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Wiki</h3>
<ul><li>
The <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Wiki+Homepage">Spark wiki</a> contains
information for developers, such as architecture documents and how to <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPARK/Contributing+to+Spark">contribute</a> to Spark.
</li></ul>
<h3>Research Papers</h3>
<p>
Spark was initially developed as a UC Berkeley research project, and much of the design is documented in papers.
The <a href="{{site.url}}research.html">research page</a> lists some of the original motivation and direction.
The following papers have been published about Spark and related projects.
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/papers/2015/sigmod_spark_sql.pdf">Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark</a>. Michael Armbrust, Reynold S. Xin, Cheng Lian, Yin Huai, Davies Liu, Joseph K. Bradley, Xiangrui Meng, Tomer Kaftan, Michael J. Franklin, Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia. <em>SIGMOD 2015</em>. June 2015.
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/graphx.pdf">GraphX: Unifying Data-Parallel and Graph-Parallel Analytics</a>. Reynold S. Xin, Daniel Crankshaw, Ankur Dave, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Michael J. Franklin, Ion Stoica. <em>OSDI 2014</em>. October 2014.
<li>
<a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/papers/2013/sosp_spark_streaming.pdf">Discretized Streams: Fault-Tolerant Streaming Computation at Scale</a>. Matei Zaharia, Tathagata Das, Haoyuan Li, Timothy Hunter, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica. <em>SOSP 2013</em>. November 2013.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/papers/2013/sigmod_shark.pdf">Shark: SQL and Rich Analytics at Scale</a>. Reynold S. Xin, Joshua Rosen, Matei Zaharia, Michael J. Franklin, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica. <em>SIGMOD 2013</em>. June 2013.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/papers/2012/hotcloud_spark_streaming.pdf">Discretized Streams: An Efficient and Fault-Tolerant Model for Stream Processing on Large Clusters</a>. Matei Zaharia, Tathagata Das, Haoyuan Li, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica. <em>HotCloud 2012</em>. June 2012.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/papers/2012/sigmod_shark_demo.pdf">Shark: Fast Data Analysis Using Coarse-grained Distributed Memory</a> (demo). Cliff Engle, Antonio Lupher, Reynold S. Xin, Matei Zaharia, Haoyuan Li, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica. <em>SIGMOD 2012</em>. May 2012. <b>Best Demo Award</b>.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/papers/2012/nsdi_spark.pdf">Resilient Distributed Datasets: A Fault-Tolerant Abstraction for In-Memory Cluster Computing</a>. Matei Zaharia, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Tathagata Das, Ankur Dave, Justin Ma, Murphy McCauley, Michael J. Franklin, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica. <em>NSDI 2012</em>. April 2012. <b>Best Paper Award</b>.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/papers/2010/hotcloud_spark.pdf">Spark: Cluster Computing with Working Sets</a>. Matei Zaharia, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Michael J. Franklin, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica. <em>HotCloud 2010</em>. June 2010.
</li>
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