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Newton Alex leads several Azure Data Analytics teams in Microsoft, India. His team contributes to technologies including Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, Azure HDInsight, and many open source technologies, including Apache YARN, Apache Spark, and Apache Hive. He started using Hadoop while at Yahoo, USA, where he helped build the first batch processing pipelines for Yahoo's ad serving team. After Yahoo, he became the leader of the big data team at Pivotal Inc., USA, where he was responsible for the entire open source stack of Pivotal Inc. He later moved to Microsoft and started the Azure Data team in India. He has worked with several Fortune 500 companies to help build their data systems on Azure.
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Managing Spark jobs in a pipeline

Managing Spark jobs in a pipeline involves two aspects:

  • Managing the attributes of the pipeline's runtime that launches the Spark activity: Managing the Spark activity pipeline attributes is no different than managing any other activities in a pipeline. The Managing and Monitoring pages we saw in Figure 11.9, Figure 11.11, and Figure 11.12 are the same for any Spark activity as well. You can use the options provided on these screens to manage your Spark activity.
  • Managing Spark jobs and configurations: This involves understanding how Spark works, being able to tune the jobs, and so on. We have a complete chapter dedicated to optimizing Synapse SQL and Spark jobs towards the end of this book. You can refer to Chapter 14, Optimizing and Troubleshooting Data Storage and Data Processing, to learn more about managing and tuning Spark jobs.

In this section, we'll learn how to add an Apache Spark job (via HDInsight) to our pipeline...

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Newton Alex leads several Azure Data Analytics teams in Microsoft, India. His team contributes to technologies including Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, Azure HDInsight, and many open source technologies, including Apache YARN, Apache Spark, and Apache Hive. He started using Hadoop while at Yahoo, USA, where he helped build the first batch processing pipelines for Yahoo's ad serving team. After Yahoo, he became the leader of the big data team at Pivotal Inc., USA, where he was responsible for the entire open source stack of Pivotal Inc. He later moved to Microsoft and started the Azure Data team in India. He has worked with several Fortune 500 companies to help build their data systems on Azure.
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