- 24 hours of instructor-led Hackathon including 7.5 hours of presentations and demos
- Hands-on learning of development, test and deployment of scalable applications.
- Learn main features of the latest version of Spark
- Follow-ups are included
 24 Hours of hands-on training |  18 Challenges |  2 End-to-end projects |
Main Objectives
Duration
Three days
Requirements
Basic knowledge of Java, Scala or Python is required.
Topics Covered
- Overview of Distributed Computing
- Overview Apache Spark
- Comparison of Spark with MapReduce
- Partitioning in Spark
- Working with RDDs
- Actions in Spark
- Aggregations
- Using DataFrames
- DataSets
- Broadcast variables
- Working with CSV, JSON, Parquet
- Useful functions
- Overview
- Windowing Operation
- Sbt
- Deployment Using CI Tools
- Spark vs Alternatives
- Deployment Strategies
- Troubleshooting
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Private Hackathon
Contact Us to schedule a hackathon at your company.
Why Our Hackathon?
Get Hands-on Skills
1/3 of the time is spent on lectures
2/3 is spent practicing!
Get Help
Several helpers are ready to assist anyone who is stuck at a challenge, not sure where to start or has other questions . The head instructor provides guidance to the participants, explains the main concepts.
Online or In-Person
We run both online and in-person hackathons. The material doesn’t change, the challenges are the same. We can adjust the hours for the online hackathon to make sure that everyone is actively engaged.
Learn more about how we’re different
Multiple Locations
We run hackathons in Canada, US and Mexico. Recent locations:
Canada
- Toronto
- Montreal
- Vancouver
- Calgary
US
- New York
- Washington
- Houston
- Salt Lake City
Certificate
Every participant gets a verifiable certificate at the end of the hackathon.
Follow-Ups
One follow-up for every day of hackathon is included. It will help you with setting up best practices in the team and refreshing your knowledge. We will also answer any of your questions.
Hackathon Schedule
Hackathon is a full day event. It runs from 8:30 to 5 with a break for lunch. Usually 1 to 2:30 hours is spent on lectures, the rest of the day is devoted to challenges.
No Installation Required
Challenges are done using our environment. Participants only need a computer with a browser.
Other Hackathons
Please check available hackathons page