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In the beginning I thought that the mappers sent shuffle files to the reducers. After understanding that it was the opposite, I was thinking that a part of the shuffle data is kept in memory for the performance purposes... Once I corrected all these misbeliefs about shuffle, I noted a few points to explore. One of these points are shuffle writers that I will present in the next 3 blog posts.
In the previous blog post we discovered the SortShuffleWriter. However, the SortShuffleManager's first choice is BypassMergeSortShuffleWriter, presented in this article.
It's the last part of the shuffle writers series. The picture so far composed of SortShuffleWriter and BypassMergeSortShuffleWriter, will be completed today with UnsafeShuffleWriter.
