Description
When it comes to Large Scale data processing and Machine Learning, Apache Spark is no doubt one of the top battle-tested frameworks out there for handling batched or streaming workloads. The ease of use, built-in Machine Learning modules, and multi-language support makes it a very attractive choice for data wonks. However bootstrapping and getting off the ground could be difficult for most teams without leveraging a Spark cluster that is already pre-provisioned and provided as a managed service in the Cloud, while this is a very attractive choice to get going, in the long run, it could be a very expensive option if it’s not well managed. As an alternative to this approach, our team has been exploring and working a lot with running Spark and all our Machine Learning workloads and pipelines as containerized Docker packages on Kubernetes. This provides an infrastructure-agnostic abstraction layer for us, and as a result, it improves our operational efficiency and reduces our overall compute cost. Most importantly, we can easily target our Spark workload deployment to run on any major Cloud or On-prem infrastructure (with Kubernetes as the common denominator) by just modifying a few…
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