Lessons From the Field: Applying Best Practices to Your Apache Spark Applications - Silvio Fiorito

"Apache Spark is an excellent tool to accelerate your analytics, whether you're doing ETL, Machine Learning, or Data Warehousing. However, to really make the most of Spark it pays to understand best practices for data storage, file formats, and query optimization. This talk will cover best practices I've applied over years in the field helping customers write Spark applications as well as identifying what patterns make sense for your use case. Session hashtag: #EUdev5" 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/unified-data-analytics-platform 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