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How we improved TracksETL throughput by understanding Spark’s execution model Introduction Back in 2018, we migrated TracksETL (one of the largest ETL job) from Hive to Spark to handle our exploding event volumes. At that time, we processed around 2.28 billion events monthly. Fast forward to...
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While working on GraphFrames in pyspark, we encountered a ExecutorLostFailure exception. Following is the pyspark script: .gist table { margin-bottom: 0; } This file contains hidden or bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than...
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One must know the disk seek patterns of an application when optimizing the storage layer for any application. So when I was working on the performance analysis of ES, one of the first thing was to determine its disk seek patterns. I used blktrace and seekwatcher for that purpose. blktrace is a...
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This is an R implementation for clustering example provided with Mahuot. The orignal problem description is: A time series of control charts needs to be clustered into their close knit groups. The data set we use is synthetic and so resembles real world information in an anonymized format. It...
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In a typical single page web app, you load a html page and keep updating it by requesting data from the server either periodically or whenever the user asks for. Such an application is well suited for data driven systems. For example, if you already have a REST API, you can easily create a single...
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In web applications, role based views are normally done using server side if..else tags etc. When developing pure javascript clients, one way of doing role based views is again using javascript conditionals. This approach suffers from the fact that role-related code is scattered throughout the...
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This is a quick dump of my notes for hadoop tuning. General Hadoop is designed to use multiple cores and disks, so it will be able to take full advantage of more powerful hardware. Don’t use RAID for HDFS datanodes as redundancy is handled by HDFS. RAID should be used for namenodes as it provides...