Apache Spark·Apache Spark essentials

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Tune memory, shuffle and file sizes before production.

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What you will be able to do
  • Cache reused DataFrames.
  • Write partitioned parquet.
  • Watch the Spark UI.

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Tune memory, shuffle and file sizes before production.

  • Cache reused DataFrames.
  • Write partitioned parquet.
  • Watch the Spark UI.
write.pyPython
df.write.mode('overwrite').partitionBy('course').parquet('out/lessons')
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Answer from memory: Which file format is columnar and common in Spark?

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Which file format is columnar and common in Spark?

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