Merge pull request #523 from JoshRosen/SPARK-1043

Switch from MUTF8 to UTF8 in PySpark serializers.

This fixes SPARK-1043, a bug introduced in 0.9.0 where PySpark couldn't serialize strings > 64kB.

This fix was written by @tyro89 and @bouk in #512. This commit squashes and rebases their pull request in order to fix some merge conflicts.
(cherry picked from commit f8c742ce274fbae2a9e616d4c97469b6a22069bb)

Signed-off-by: Patrick Wendell <pwendell@gmail.com>
Merge pull request #497 from tdas/docs-update

Updated Spark Streaming Programming Guide

Here is the updated version of the Spark Streaming Programming Guide. This is still a work in progress, but the major changes are in place. So feedback is most welcome.

In general, I have tried to make the guide to easier to understand even if the reader does not know much about Spark. The updated website is hosted here -

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tdas/spark_docs/streaming-programming-guide.html

The major changes are:
- Overview illustrates the usecases of Spark Streaming - various input sources and various output sources
- An example right after overview to quickly give an idea of what Spark Streaming program looks like
- Made Java API and examples a first class citizen like Scala by using tabs to show both Scala and Java examples (similar to AMPCamp tutorial's code tabs)
- Highlighted the DStream operations updateStateByKey and transform because of their powerful nature
- Updated driver node failure recovery text to highlight automatic recovery in Spark standalone mode
- Added information about linking and using the external input sources like Kafka and Flume
- In general, reorganized the sections to better show the Basic section and the more advanced sections like Tuning and Recovery.

Todos:
- Links to the docs of external Kafka, Flume, etc
- Illustrate window operation with figure as well as example.

Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>

== Merge branch commits ==

commit 18ff10556570b39d672beeb0a32075215cfcc944
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 28 21:49:30 2014 -0800

    Fixed a lot of broken links.

commit 34a5a6008dac2e107624c7ff0db0824ee5bae45f
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 28 18:02:28 2014 -0800

    Updated github url to use SPARK_GITHUB_URL variable.

commit f338a60ae8069e0a382d2cb170227e5757cc0b7a
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 27 22:42:42 2014 -0800

    More updates based on Patrick and Harvey's comments.

commit 89a81ff25726bf6d26163e0dd938290a79582c0f
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 27 13:08:34 2014 -0800

    Updated docs based on Patricks PR comments.

commit d5b6196b532b5746e019b959a79ea0cc013a8fc3
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Jan 26 20:15:58 2014 -0800

    Added spark.streaming.unpersist config and info on StreamingListener interface.

commit e3dcb46ab83d7071f611d9b5008ba6bc16c9f951
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Jan 26 18:41:12 2014 -0800

    Fixed docs on StreamingContext.getOrCreate.

commit 6c29524639463f11eec721e4d17a9d7159f2944b
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 23 18:49:39 2014 -0800

    Added example and figure for window operations, and links to Kafka and Flume API docs.

commit f06b964a51bb3b21cde2ff8bdea7d9785f6ce3a9
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 22 22:49:12 2014 -0800

    Fixed missing endhighlight tag in the MLlib guide.

commit 036a7d46187ea3f2a0fb8349ef78f10d6c0b43a9
Merge: eab351d a1cd185
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 22 22:17:42 2014 -0800

    Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into docs-update

commit eab351d05c0baef1d4b549e1581310087158d78d
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 22 22:17:15 2014 -0800

    Update Spark Streaming Programming Guide.
(cherry picked from commit 793020961489e16e924c4531da3a13884d2b9175)

Conflicts:

	docs/mllib-guide.md