diff --git a/docs/src/reference/asciidoc/core/spark.adoc b/docs/src/reference/asciidoc/core/spark.adoc
index 77f8e9b180eeae..9ef3289ef81110 100644
--- a/docs/src/reference/asciidoc/core/spark.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/reference/asciidoc/core/spark.adoc
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ Or if you prefer Scala
 
 [source,scala]
 ----
-val sc = new SparkContext(...)
+val sc = new SparkConf(...)
 sc.set("spark.serializer", classOf[KryoSerializer].getName) <1>
 ----