Re: Suggestions on using scala/python for Spark Streaming

2017-10-26 Thread Sebastian Piu
Have a look at how pyspark works in conjunction with spark as it is not just a matter of language preference. There are several implications and a performance price to pay if you go with python. At the end of the day only you can answer whether that price is worth over retraining your team in anot

Re: Suggestions on using scala/python for Spark Streaming

2017-10-26 Thread lucas.g...@gmail.com
I don't have any specific wisdom for you on that front. But I've always been served well by the 'Try both' approach. Set up your benchmarks, configure both setups... You don't have to go the whole hog, but just enough to get a mostly realistic implementation functional. Run them both with some