This document discusses using Apache Spark and Apache HBase to build a time series application. It provides an overview of time series data and requirements for ingesting, storing, and analyzing high volumes of time series data. The document then describes using Spark Streaming to process real-time data streams from sensors and storing the data in HBase. It outlines the steps in the lab exercise, which involves reading sensor data from files, converting it to objects, creating a Spark Streaming DStream, processing the DStream, and saving the data to HBase.