Apache Iceberg Fundamentals Training Course

This instructor-led, live training in Brazil (online or onsite) is designed for advanced-level data professionals who aim to optimize data processing workflows, ensure data integrity, and implement robust data lakehouse solutions capable of handling the complexities of modern big data applications.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Gain a deep understanding of Iceberg’s architecture, including metadata management and file layout.
• Configure Iceberg for optimal performance across various environments and integrate it with multiple data processing engines.
• Manage large-scale Iceberg tables, execute complex schema changes, and handle partition evolution.
• Master techniques to enhance query performance and data scan efficiency for large datasets.
• Implement mechanisms to ensure data consistency, manage transactional guarantees, and handle failures in distributed environments.

This instructor-led, live training in Brazil (online or onsite) targets intermediate-level data scientists and engineers who wish to utilize Google Colab and Apache Spark for big data processing and analytics.

By the conclusion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up a big data environment using Google Colab and Spark.
• Process and analyze large datasets efficiently with Apache Spark.
• Visualize big data in a collaborative environment.
• Integrate Apache Spark with cloud-based tools.

Advances in technology and the escalating volume of information are reshaping business operations across numerous industries, including the public sector. The rate at which governments generate data and archive digital records is accelerating, driven by the rapid proliferation of mobile devices and applications, smart sensors and devices, cloud computing solutions, and citizen-facing portals. As digital information expands and grows more complex, the management, processing, storage, security, and disposition of that data become increasingly intricate. New tools for capture, search, discovery, and analysis are enabling organizations to derive insights from unstructured data. The government sector is reaching a critical juncture, recognizing that information is a strategic asset. To better serve the public and meet mission requirements, governments must protect, leverage, and analyze both structured and unstructured information. As government leaders strive to evolve into data-driven organizations capable of successfully accomplishing their missions, they are laying the groundwork to correlate dependencies across events, people, processes, and information.

High-value government solutions will emerge from a combination of the most disruptive technologies:

• Mobile devices and applications
• Cloud services
• Social business technologies and networking
• Big Data and analytics

Big Data represents an intelligent industry solution that enables government entities to make better decisions by taking action based on patterns revealed through the analysis of large volumes of data—both related and unrelated, structured and unstructured.

However, achieving these outcomes requires far more than simply accumulating massive quantities of data. "Making sense of these volumes of Big Data requires cutting-edge tools and technologies that can analyze and extract useful knowledge from vast and diverse streams of information," noted Tom Kalil and Fen Zhao of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in a post on the OSTP Blog.

The White House took a significant step toward assisting agencies in identifying these technologies by establishing the National Big Data Research and Development Initiative in 2012. This initiative included more than $200 million to maximize the potential of the Big Data explosion and the tools required to analyze it.

The challenges posed by Big Data are nearly as daunting as its promise is encouraging. Efficient data storage is one such challenge. As always, budgets are tight, so agencies must minimize the per-megabyte cost of storage and keep data easily accessible, ensuring users can retrieve it when and how they need it. Backing up massive quantities of data further heightens this challenge.

Effectively analyzing data is another major hurdle. Many agencies utilize commercial tools that enable them to sift through mountains of data, identifying trends that help them operate more efficiently. (A recent study by MeriTalk found that federal IT executives believe Big Data could help agencies save over $500 billion while also fulfilling mission objectives.)

Custom-developed Big Data tools are also allowing agencies to address the need to analyze their data. For instance, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Computational Data Analytics Group has made its Piranha data analytics system available to other agencies. The system has helped medical researchers find a link that can alert doctors to aortic aneurysms before they strike. It is also used for more routine tasks, such as sifting through resumes to connect job candidates with hiring managers.

Apache Hadoop stands as the leading framework for processing Big Data across server clusters. Over the course of three days (with an optional fourth day), participants will explore the business advantages and real-world applications of Hadoop and its surrounding ecosystem. Attendees will gain skills in planning cluster deployment and scalability, as well as in installing, maintaining, monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing Hadoop environments. Practical exercises include bulk data loading, familiarization with various Hadoop distributions, and the installation and management of tools within the Hadoop ecosystem. The curriculum concludes with a discussion on securing clusters using Kerberos.

“…The materials were very well prepared and covered thoroughly. The Lab was very helpful and well organized”
— Andrew Nguyen, Principal Integration DW Engineer, Microsoft Online Advertising

Audience

Hadoop administrators

Format

A combination of lectures and hands-on labs, with an approximate split of 60% lectures and 40% labs.

Apache NiFi is an open-source, flow-based data integration and event-processing platform. It enables automated, real-time data routing, transformation, and system mediation between disparate systems, with a web-based UI and fine-grained control.

This instructor-led, live training (onsite or remote) is aimed at intermediate-level administrators and engineers who wish to deploy, manage, secure, and optimize NiFi dataflows in production environments.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install, configure, and maintain Apache NiFi clusters.
• Design and manage dataflows from varied sources and sinks.
• Implement flow automation, routing, and transformation logic.
• Optimize performance, monitor operations, and troubleshoot issues.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture with real-world architecture discussion.
• Hands-on labs: building, deploying, and managing flows.
• Scenario-based exercises in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

In this instructor-led live training in Brazil, participants will learn the fundamentals of flow-based programming as they develop several demo extensions, components, and processors using Apache NiFi.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand NiFi's architecture and dataflow concepts.
• Develop extensions using NiFi and third-party APIs.
• Custom develop their own Apache NiFi processor.
• Ingest and process real-time data from disparate and uncommon file formats and data sources.

This training offers a hands-on introduction to creating scalable data processing and Machine Learning workflows using PySpark. Participants will gain insight into how Apache Spark functions within contemporary Big Data ecosystems and how to efficiently manage large datasets by leveraging distributed computing principles.

This instructor-led, live training in Brazil (online or onsite) is aimed at engineers who wish to set up and deploy Apache Spark system for processing very large amounts of data.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Apache Spark.
• Quickly process and analyze very large data sets.
• Understand the difference between Apache Spark and Hadoop MapReduce and when to use which.
• Integrate Apache Spark with other machine learning tools.

This instructor-led live training in Brazil (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner to intermediate system administrators who wish to deploy, maintain, and optimize Spark clusters.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Apache Spark in various environments.
• Manage cluster resources and monitor Spark applications.
• Optimize the performance of Spark clusters.
• Implement security measures and ensure high availability.
• Debug and troubleshoot common Spark issues.

The learning curve for Apache Spark can be steep at the beginning, requiring considerable effort to see initial results. This course is designed to help you navigate those early challenges effectively. Upon completion, participants will grasp the fundamentals of Apache Spark, clearly distinguish between RDDs and DataFrames, and become proficient with the Python and Scala APIs. You will also gain insights into how executors and tasks operate. Aligned with industry best practices, the course places a strong emphasis on cloud deployment, specifically focusing on Databricks and AWS environments. Additionally, students will learn to differentiate between AWS EMR and AWS Glue, exploring one of AWS's newer Spark services.

AUDIENCE:

Data Engineers, DevOps Professionals, Data Scientists

In this instructor-led, live training in Brazil, participants will learn how to use Python and Spark together to analyze big data as they work on hands-on exercises.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Learn how to use Spark with Python to analyze Big Data.
• Work on exercises that mimic real world cases.
• Use different tools and techniques for big data analysis using PySpark.

This instructor-led, live training in Brazil (online or onsite) is aimed at developers who wish to use and integrate Spark, Hadoop, and Python to process, analyze, and transform large and complex data sets.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the necessary environment to start processing big data with Spark, Hadoop, and Python.
• Understand the features, core components, and architecture of Spark and Hadoop.
• Learn how to integrate Spark, Hadoop, and Python for big data processing.
• Explore the tools in the Spark ecosystem (Spark MLlib, Spark Streaming, Kafka, Sqoop, Kafka, and Flume).
• Build collaborative filtering recommendation systems similar to Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, Spotify, and Google.
• Use Apache Mahout to scale machine learning algorithms.

Spark SQL serves as Apache Spark's dedicated module for handling structured and unstructured data. It provides insights into the data's structure alongside the computations being executed, enabling the system to implement various optimizations. Spark SQL is commonly utilized for two main purposes:
- Executing SQL queries.
- Accessing data from an existing Hive installation.

Through this instructor-led live training, available either onsite or remotely, participants will acquire the skills necessary to analyze diverse datasets using Spark SQL.

Upon completing this training, participants will be equipped to:

• Install and configure Spark SQL.
• Conduct data analysis using Spark SQL.
• Query datasets across various formats.
• Visualize data and the results of queries.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and discussions.
• Extensive exercises and practical practice.
• Hands-on implementation within a live-lab environment.

Customization Options

• To arrange a customized training session for this course, please contact us.

Stratio is a data-centric platform that combines big data, artificial intelligence, and governance into a unified solution. Its Rocket and Intelligence modules facilitate rapid data exploration, transformation, and advanced analytics within enterprise environments.

This instructor-led live training (available online or onsite) is designed for intermediate-level data professionals seeking to effectively utilize the Rocket and Intelligence modules in Stratio with PySpark. The course focuses on looping structures, user-defined functions, and advanced data logic.

Upon completing this training, participants will be able to:

• Navigate and operate within the Stratio platform using the Rocket and Intelligence modules.
• Apply PySpark for data ingestion, transformation, and analysis.
• Utilize loops and conditional logic to manage data workflows and perform feature engineering.
• Create and manage user-defined functions (UDFs) to enable reusable data operations in PySpark.

Course Format

• Interactive lectures and discussions.
• Extensive exercises and practical activities.
• Hands-on implementation in a live laboratory environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request customized training for this course, please contact us to make arrangements.