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Spark Internals and Performance Tuning
Spark is fast until a shuffle, and almost every Spark performance problem is a shuffle problem wearing a disguise. Knowing which transformations force data across the network, and how to spot skew in the stage view, is the difference between a job that finishes in four minutes and the same job running for an hour.
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