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Shuffle in PySpark

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My recent PySpark investigation led me to the shuffle.py file and my first reaction was "Oh, so PySpark has its own shuffle mechanism?". Last year I spent long weeks analyzing the readers and writers and was hoping for some rest in 2022. However, it didn't happen. Let's check this out!

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The Dog Days of PySpark

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PySpark is the abstraction that lets a bazillion Data Engineers forget about that blight Scala and cuddle their wonderfully soft and ever-kind Python code, while choking down gobs of data like some Harkonnen glutton. But, that comes with […] The post The Dog Days of PySpark appeared first on Confessions of a Data Guy.

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Arbitrary stateful processing in PySpark with applyInPandasWithState

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It's always a huge pleasure to see the PySpark API covering more and more Scala API features. Starting from Apache Spark 3.4.0 you can even write arbitrary stateful processing jobs! But since the API is a little bit different than the one available on the Scala side, I wanted to take a deeper look.

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Serializers in PySpark

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We've learned in the previous PySpark blog posts about the serialization overhead between the Python application and JVM. An intrinsic actor of this overhead are Python serializers that will be the topic of this article and hopefully, will provide a more complete overview of the Python JVM serialization.

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Parameterized queries with PySpark

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PySpark has always provided wonderful SQL and Python APIs for querying data. As of Databricks Runtime 12.1 and Apache Spark 3.4, parameterized queries.

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PySpark and vectorized User-Defined Functions

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PySpark doesn't have this mapping feature but does have the User-Defined Functions with an optimized version called vectorized UDF! The Scala API of Apache Spark SQL has various ways of transforming the data, from the native and User-Defined Function column-based functions, to more custom and row-level map functions.

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PySpark and pyspark.zip story

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The topic of this blog post is one of my first big surprises while I was learning the debugging of PySpark jobs. Usually I'm running the code locally in debug mode and the defined breakpoints help me understand what happens. That time, it was different!

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