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Apache Spark Under The Hood
By Dakshin K
February 28, 2025
- Apache Spark addresses limitations of MapReduce by leveraging in-memory processing and lazy evaluation, reducing costly disk I/O and enabling complex workflows.
- Lazy evaluation optimizes performance by consolidating operations into stages, minimizing intermediate data shuffling between cluster nodes.
- Spark's execution model uses narrow (partition-local) and wide (shuffle-dependent) transformations, with stages created at shuffle boundaries impacting job efficiency.
- Data immutability and incremental processing are emphasized for cost-effective reprocessing, auditability, and historical data retention in production pipelines.
- Partitioning strategies critically affect performance: skewed data distribution can cause bottlenecks, while proper repartitioning improves parallelism.
- Spark SQL and DataFrame APIs simplify distributed computation by abstracting low-level complexities, though understanding execution plans remains vital for optimization.
- Cluster memory management and spill-to-disk mechanisms balance large dataset processing with hardware constraints, requiring careful monitoring.
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