By the end of 2018 I published a post about code generation in Apache Spark SQL where I answered the questions about who, when, how and what. But I omitted the "why" and cozos created an issue on my Github to complete the article. Something I will try to do here.
In November 2018 bithw1 pointed out to me a feature that I haven't used yet in Apache Spark - custom optimization. After some months consacred to learning Apache Spark GraphX, I finally found a moment to explore it. This post begins a new series about Apache Spark customization and it covers the basics, i.e. the 2 available methods to add the custom optimizations.
The code generated by Apache Spark for all the queries defined with higher-level concepts as SQL queries is the key to understand the processing logic performance. This post, started after a discussion on my Github, tries to explain some of the basics of code generation workflow.
With data-intensive applications as the streaming ones, bad memory management can add long pauses for GC. Luckily, we can reduce this impact by writing memory-optimized code and using the storage outside the heap called off-heap.
Some months ago bithw1 posted an interesting question on my Github about multiple SparkSessions sharing the same SparkContext. If you have similar interrogations, feel free to ask - maybe it will give a birth to more detailed post adding some more value to the community. This post, at least, tries to do so by answering the question.
Some time ago on my Github bithw1 pointed out an interesting behavior of Hive integration on Apache Spark SQL. To not delve too much into details now, I can tell that the behavior was about not respected DataFrame schema. Our quick exchange ended up with an explanation but it also encouraged me to go much more into details to understand the hows and whys.
