About the author

Sridhar Alla is a big data expert helping companies solve complex problems in distributed computing, large scale data science and analytics practice. He presents regularly at several prestigious conferences and provides training and consulting to companies. He holds a bachelor's in computer science from JNTU, India.

He loves writing code in Python, Scala, and Java. He also has extensive hands-on knowledge of several Hadoop-based technologies, TensorFlow, NoSQL, IoT, and deep learning.

I thank my loving wife, Rosie Sarkaria for all the love and patience during the many months I spent writing this book. I thank my parents Ravi and Lakshmi Alla for all the support and encouragement. I am very grateful to my wonderful niece Niharika and nephew Suman Kalyan who helped me with screenshots, proof reading and testing the code snippets.