Fine Tuning and Enhancing Performance of Apache Spark Jobs

Apache Spark defaults provide decent performance for large data sets but leave room for significant performance gains if able to tune parameters based on resources and job. We’ll dive into some best practices extracted from solving real world problems, and steps taken as we added additional resources. garbage collector selection, serialization, tweaking number of workers/executors, partitioning data, looking at skew, partition sizes, scheduling pool, fairscheduler, Java heap parameters. Reading sparkui execution dag to identify bottlenecks and solutions, optimizing joins, partition. By spark sql for rollups best practices to avoid if possible. About: Databricks provides a unified data analytics platform, powered by Apache Spark™, that accelerates innovation by unifying data science, engineering and business. Read more here: https://databricks.com/product/unifie... Connect with us: Website: https://databricks.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/databricksinc Twitter: https://twitter.com/databricks LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/databricks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/databricksinc/ Databricks is proud to announce that Gartner has named us a Leader in both the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems and the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. Download the reports here. https://databricks.com/databricks-named-leader-by-gartner