Explaining the Python-JVM Boundary in Spark, and What Arrow Changed
Arrow's real contribution to PySpark isn't speed at any one API but a shared memory format at every boundary between the JVM and Python; each releas…
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Most PySpark Tuning Advice Starts in the Wrong Place
When I benchmarked PySpark's UDF types earlier this year, I ran the same three workloads (trivial arithmetic, a string transform, a normal CDF) at f…