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Rishi Yadav
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Rishi Yadav

Rishi Yadav has 19 years of experience in designing and developing enterprise applications. He is an open source software expert and advises American companies on big data and public cloud trends. Rishi was honored as one of Silicon Valley's 40 under 40 in 2014. He earned his bachelor's degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 1998. About 12 years ago, Rishi started InfoObjects, a company that helps data-driven businesses gain new insights into data. InfoObjects combines the power of open source and big data to solve business challenges for its clients and has a special focus on Apache Spark. The company has been on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing companies for 6 years in a row. InfoObjects has also been named the best place to work in the Bay Area in 2014 and 2015. Rishi is an open source contributor and active blogger. This book is dedicated to my parents, Ganesh and Bhagwati Yadav; I would not be where I am without their unconditional support, trust, and providing me the freedom to choose a path of my own. Special thanks go to my life partner, Anjali, for providing immense support and putting up with my long, arduous hours (yet again).Our 9-year-old son, Vedant, and niece, Kashmira, were the unrelenting force behind keeping me and the book on track. Big thanks to InfoObjects' CTO and my business partner, Sudhir Jangir, for providing valuable feedback and also contributing with recipes on enterprise security, a topic he is passionate about; to our SVP, Bart Hickenlooper, for taking the charge in leading the company to the next level; to Tanmoy Chowdhury and Neeraj Gupta for their valuable advice; to Yogesh Chandani, Animesh Chauhan, and Katie Nelson for running operations skillfully so that I could focus on this book; and to our internal review team (especially Rakesh Chandran) for ironing out the kinks. I would also like to thank Marcel Izumi for, as always, providing creative visuals. I cannot miss thanking our dog, Sparky, for giving me company on my long nights out. Last but not least, special thanks to our valuable clients, partners, and employees, who have made InfoObjects the best place to work at and, needless to say, an immensely successful organization.
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Understanding project Tungsten


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 20 Gbps. 

On similar lines, the disk bandwidth has increased from 50 MB/s to 500 MB/s, and solid state drives (SSDs) are being deployed more and more. Pruning unneeded input data and predicate push-down have made the speed gains even larger effectively....

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Rishi Yadav has 19 years of experience in designing and developing enterprise applications. He is an open source software expert and advises American companies on big data and public cloud trends. Rishi was honored as one of Silicon Valley's 40 under 40 in 2014. He earned his bachelor's degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 1998. About 12 years ago, Rishi started InfoObjects, a company that helps data-driven businesses gain new insights into data. InfoObjects combines the power of open source and big data to solve business challenges for its clients and has a special focus on Apache Spark. The company has been on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing companies for 6 years in a row. InfoObjects has also been named the best place to work in the Bay Area in 2014 and 2015. Rishi is an open source contributor and active blogger. This book is dedicated to my parents, Ganesh and Bhagwati Yadav; I would not be where I am without their unconditional support, trust, and providing me the freedom to choose a path of my own. Special thanks go to my life partner, Anjali, for providing immense support and putting up with my long, arduous hours (yet again).Our 9-year-old son, Vedant, and niece, Kashmira, were the unrelenting force behind keeping me and the book on track. Big thanks to InfoObjects' CTO and my business partner, Sudhir Jangir, for providing valuable feedback and also contributing with recipes on enterprise security, a topic he is passionate about; to our SVP, Bart Hickenlooper, for taking the charge in leading the company to the next level; to Tanmoy Chowdhury and Neeraj Gupta for their valuable advice; to Yogesh Chandani, Animesh Chauhan, and Katie Nelson for running operations skillfully so that I could focus on this book; and to our internal review team (especially Rakesh Chandran) for ironing out the kinks. I would also like to thank Marcel Izumi for, as always, providing creative visuals. I cannot miss thanking our dog, Sparky, for giving me company on my long nights out. Last but not least, special thanks to our valuable clients, partners, and employees, who have made InfoObjects the best place to work at and, needless to say, an immensely successful organization.
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