Optimizing Databricks Workloads

Databricks is an industry-leading, cloud-based platform for data analytics, data science, and data engineering supporting thousands of organizations across the world in their data journey. It is a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark-based big data analytics platform for data science and data engineering in the cloud.
In Optimizing Databricks Workloads, you will get started with a brief introduction to Azure Databricks and quickly begin to understand the important optimization techniques. The book covers how to select the optimal Spark cluster configuration for running big data processing and workloads in Databricks, some very useful optimization techniques for Spark DataFrames, best practices for optimizing Delta Lake, and techniques to optimize Spark jobs through Spark core. It contains an opportunity to learn about some of the real-world scenarios where optimizing workloads in Databricks has helped organizations increase performance and save costs across various domains.
By the end of this book, you will be prepared with the necessary toolkit to speed up your Spark jobs and process your data more efficiently.

Type
ebook
Category
publication date
2021-12-24
what you will learn

Get to grips with Spark fundamentals and the Databricks platform
Process big data using the Spark DataFrame API with Delta Lake
Analyze data using graph processing in Databricks
Use MLflow to manage machine learning life cycles in Databricks
Find out how to choose the right cluster configuration for your workloads
Explore file compaction and clustering methods to tune Delta tables
Discover advanced optimization techniques to speed up Spark jobs

no of pages
230
duration
460
key features
Understand Spark optimizations for big data workloads and maximizing performance * Build efficient big data engineering pipelines with Databricks and Delta Lake * Efficiently manage Spark clusters for big data processing
approach
Readers will begin by exploring the essentials of Databricks and then quickly moving on to the optimisation techniques. You will be guided through a step-by-step explanation of essential concepts and practical examples to learn and apply key concepts and techniques effectively in their day-to-day databricks jobs.
audience
This book is for data engineers, data scientists, and cloud architects who have working knowledge of Spark/Databricks and some basic understanding of data engineering principles. Readers will need to have a working knowledge of Python, and some experience of SQL in PySpark and Spark SQL is beneficial.
meta description
Accelerate computations and make the most of your data effectively and efficiently on Databricks
short description
The book takes a hands-on approach to speeding up your Spark jobs and data processing by covering the implementation and associated methodologies that will have you up and running in no time. Developers working with Databricks and Spark will be able to put their knowledge to work with this practical guide to optimizing workloads.
subtitle
Harness the power of Apache Spark in Azure and maximize the performance of modern big data workloads
keywords
Databricks Python, Databricks Spark, Databricks Delta lake, azure spark optimisation, azure sql, spark core, spark, databricks platform, azure platform
Product ISBN
9781801819077