Before you begin your journey as an Apache Spark programmer, you should have a solid understanding of the Spark application architecture and how applications are executed on a Spark cluster. This ...

Apache Spark 3.0 is now here, and it’s bringing a host of enhancements across its diverse range of capabilities. The headliner is an big bump in performance for the SQL engine and better coverage of ...

But Spark has also had its share of impedance mismatch issues, such as making R and Python programs first-class citizens, or adapting to more compute-intensive processing of AI models.