Best Practices for Engineering Production-Ready Software with Apache Spark
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Notebooks are a great tool for Big Data. They have drastically changed the way scientists and engineers develop and share ideas. However, most world-class Spark products cannot be easily engineered, tested and deployed just by modifying or combining notebooks. Taking a prototype to production with high quality typically involves proper software engineering. The code we develop on such larger-scale projects must be modular, robust, readable, testable, reusable and performant. At Montevideo Labs we have many years of experience helping our clients to architect large Spark systems capable of processing data at peta-byte scale. In previous Spark Summits, we described how we productionalized an unattended Machine Learning system in Spark that trains thousands of ML models daily that are deployed for real-time serving at extremely low latency. In this instance, we will share lessons learned taking other Spark products to production in top tech US companies. Throughout the session we will address the following questions along with the relevant best practices: How to make your Spark code readable, debuggable, reusable and testable? How to architect Spark components for different processi…
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