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3 Performance Tricks for Dealing With Big Data Sets

DZone

This article describes 3 different tricks that I used in dealing with big data sets (order of 10 million records) and that proved to enhance performance dramatically. Trick 1: CLOB Instead of Result Set.

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Write Optimized Spark Code for Big Data Applications

DZone

Apache Spark is a powerful open-source distributed computing framework that provides a variety of APIs to support big data processing. PySpark is the Python API for Apache Spark , which allows Python developers to write Spark applications using Python instead of Scala or Java.

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Cutting Big Data Costs: Effective Data Processing With Apache Spark

DZone

In today's data-driven world, efficient data processing plays a pivotal role in the success of any project. Apache Spark , a robust open-source data processing framework, has emerged as a game-changer in this domain.

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DataCentral: Uber’s Big Data Observability and Chargeback Platform

Uber Engineering

Discover real-time query analytics and governance with DataCentral: Uber’s big data observability powerhouse, tackling millions of queries in petabyte-scale environments.

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In-Stream Big Data Processing

Highly Scalable

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. Other flows are more sophisticated: one Storm topology can pass the data to another topology via Kafka or Cassandra. Towards Unified Big Data Processing. Apache Spark [10].

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Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency

Uber Engineering

To accomplish this, Uber relies heavily on making data-driven decisions at every level, from forecasting rider demand during high traffic events to identifying and addressing bottlenecks … The post Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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How Amazon is solving big-data challenges with data lakes

All Things Distributed

Back when Jeff Bezos filled orders in his garage and drove packages to the post office himself, crunching the numbers on costs, tracking inventory, and forecasting future demand was relatively simple.

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