Use Spark interims to troubleshoot and polish low-code Spark pipelines: Part 1

Use Spark interims to troubleshoot and polish low-code Spark pipelines: Part 1

Let’s take advantage of Spark’s interim metadata to understand our Spark job behavior with low-code tooling.

Let’s take advantage of Spark’s interim metadata to understand our Spark job behavior with low-code tooling.

Anya Bida
Assistant Director of R&D
Texas Rangers Baseball Club
April 22, 2023

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Let’s take advantage of Spark’s interim metadata to understand our Spark job behavior with low-code tooling. The Spark UI shows me some nice metrics for job completion time, num rows read, num rows written, and some related details...

...but I want to know how my pipeline behaves over time.

Ok, but manually checking for pipeline success is not a viable goal. I need testing and alerting!

Historical metadata gets super handy when I want to compare my pipeline runs using multiple Spark versions. Check out Part 2 of this blog where we troubleshoot individual dataframes.

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