May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
294 pages
7h 33m
English
Project Tungsten, starting with Spark Version 1.4, was the initiative to bring Spark closer to bare metal, which has become a first-class integral feature now. The goal of this project is to substantially improve the memory and CPU efficiency of the Spark applications and push the limits of the underlying hardware.
In distributed systems, conventional wisdom has been to always optimize network I/O as that has been the most scarce and bottlenecked resource. This trend has changed in the last few years. Network bandwidth in the last 5 years has changed from 1 gigabit per second to 10 gigabit per second. In fact, Amazon Web Services is poised to make 40 Gbps standard, and there are already instances available at ...
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