Apache Spark internals articles

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What would it take for you to trust your Databricks pipelines in production?

A 3-day bug hunt on a 3-person team costs up to €7,200 in lost engineering time. This workshop teaches you to prevent that β€” unit tests, data tests, and integration tests for PySpark and Databricks Lakeflow, including Spark Declarative Pipelines.

Unit, data & integration tests
Medallion architecture & Lakeflow SDP
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Bartosz Konieczny
Bartosz
Konieczny

External shuffle service in Apache Spark

To scale Spark applications automatically we need to enable dynamic resource allocation. But to make it work we need another feature called external shuffle service that will be covered here.

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Memory and Apache Spark classes

In previous posts about memory in Apache Spark, I've been exploring memory behavior of Apache Spark when the input files are much bigger than the allocated memory. After that it's a good moment to sum up that in the post dedicated to classes involved in memory using tasks.

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