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Spark Isn’t Magic: What Twenty Years of Data Engineering Taught Me About Distributed Processing

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Every few years, a technology emerges that fundamentally changes how we think about data processing. MapReduce did it in 2004. Apache Spark did it in 2014. And after spending two decades building data pipelines across enterprises of every size, I’ve learned that the difference between a successful Spark implementation and a failed one rarely comes… Continue reading