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Data+AI Summit follow-up: arbitrary stateful processing and state management

After previous posts about native stateful operations, it's time to focus on the one where you can define your custom stateful logic.

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Data+AI Summit follow-up: joins and state management

Streaming joins are an interesting feature that heavily uses state store. Even though I already blogged about it in the past (2018), some changes were made and also - I hope so - my explanation capacity improved.

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Watermark and window-based processing

One of the not obvious things about the watermark is how it applies on the windows. At first glance, you could think that it will filter out the records produced before the watermark value. But it's not how it works for windows.

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Apache Spark and shuffle management - external services

Shuffle accompanies distributed data processing from the very beginning. Apache Spark is not an exception, and one of the prominent features targeted for 3.1 release is the full support for the pluggable shuffle backend. But it's not the single effort made these days by the community to handle shuffle drawbacks. And you will see it in this blog post.

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Data+AI Summit follow-up: aggregations and state management

In previous blog posts you discovered how the state store interacts with dropDuplicates and limit operators. This time you will see how it's used in aggregations.

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Shuffle in Apache Spark, back to the basics

If you are a newcomer in the distributed world, someone certainly told you that shuffle is bad and will slow down your processing. But what does it mean? What happens when this infamous shuffle exists in your code? In this article you should find some answers for the shuffle in Apache Spark.

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Partition-wise joins and Apache Spark SQL

Apache Spark has this great capacity to optimize joins of bucketed tables but does it work on partitions as well? No, and to understand why, I invite you to read the following sections of this blog post ?

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Data+AI Summit follow-up: drop duplicates and state management

Another stateful operation requiring the state store is drop duplicates. You can use it to deduplicate your streaming data before pushing it to the sink.

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Drop is a...select

Have you ever wondered what is the relationship between drop and select operations in Apache Spark SQL? If not, I will shed some light on them in this short blog post.

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Data+AI Summit follow-up: global limit and state management

It's the second follow-up Data+AI Summit post but the first one focusing on the stateful operations and their interaction with the state store.

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Data+AI follow-up: StateStoreRDD - building block for stateful processing

The main Apache Spark component enabling stateful processing is StateStoreRDD. It creates a partition-based state store instance but also triggers state-based computation.

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What's new in Apache Spark 3.0 - Kubernetes

I believe Kubernetes is the next big step in the framework after proposing Catalyst Optimizer, modernizing streaming processing with Structured Streaming, and introducing Adaptive Query Execution. Especially that Apache Spark 3 brings a lot of changes in this part!

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Broadcasting in Structured Streaming

Some time ago @ArunJijo36 mentioned me on Twitter with a question about broadcasting in Structured Streaming. If, like me at this time, you don't know what happens, I think that this article will be good for you 👊

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What's new in Apache Spark 3.0 - GPU-aware scheduling

GPU-awareness was one of the topics I postponed the most in my Apache Spark 3.0 exploration. But its time has come and in this blog post you will discover what changed in the version 3 of the framework regarding the GPU-based computation.

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File source and its internals

Few months ago, before the Apache Spark 3.0 features series, you probably noticed a short series about files processing in Structured Streaming. If you enjoyed it, here is a complementary note presenting the file data source :)

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What's new in Apache Spark 3 - Structured Streaming

Apache Kafka changes in Apache Spark 3.0 was one of the first topics covered in the "what's new" series. Even though there were a lot of changes related to the Kafka source and sink, they're not the single ones in Structured Streaming.

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What's new in Apache Spark 3.0 - UI changes

Apart from data processing-related changes, Apache Spark 3.0 also brings some changes at the UI level. The interface is supposed to be more intuitive and should help you understand processing logic better!

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What's new in Apache Spark 3.0 - dynamic partition pruning

There are stories like this, the stories that remain in the backlog for a very long time, and finally, they get implemented. That's exactly what happened with the Dynamic Partition Pruning feature added, after almost 4 years in the backlog, to Apache Spark 3.

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Broadcast join - complementary notes for local shuffle reader

The Local shuffle reader presented in one of the previous posts might have introduced some doubt in the way how the broadcast join is working. If it's the case, this blog post should shed some light on it. If not, it can give you more in-depth details than the ones introducing this type of join a few years ago.

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What's new in Apache Spark 3.0 - predicate pushdown support for nested fields

If you noticed that some filter expressions weren't pushed down to your Apache Parquet files, the situation should change in Apache Spark 3.0. The new release supports this feature called nested data predicate pushdown.

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