Apache Spark 2.0 has laid the foundation for many new features and functionality. Its main three themes—easier, faster, and smarter—are pervasive in its unified and simplified high-level APIs for Structured data. In this introductory part lecture and part hands-on workshop you’ll learn how to apply some of these new APIs using Databricks Community Edition. In particular, we will cover the following areas: What’s new in Spark 2.0 SparkSessions vs SparkContexts Datasets/Dataframes and Spark SQL Introduction to Structured Streaming concepts and APIs