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Distributed Big Data Engineering

Petabyte-scale Apache Spark tuning, Adaptive Query Execution (AQE), Apache Kafka streaming, and Apache Iceberg lakehouses.

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Distributed Big Data Engineering

Petabyte-scale Apache Spark tuning, Adaptive Query Execution (AQE), Apache Kafka streaming, and Apache Iceberg lakehouses.

Spark Internals & Skew Optimization

Catalyst optimizer, shuffle partitions, AQE, and broadcast thresholds.

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Adaptive Query Execution (AQE) & Handling Data Skew

Prior to Spark 3.0, the physical execution plan was locked in statically before runtime based on outdated or non-existent catalog statistics. AQE inspects actual shuffle statistics at runtime to re-optimize downstream stages.