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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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Designing a partition strategy for efficiency/performance

In the last few sections, we explored the various storage and analytical partitioning options and learned about how partitioning helps with performance, scale, security, availability, and so on. In this section, we will recap the points we learned about performance and efficiency and learn about some additional performance patterns.

Here are some strategies to keep in mind while designing for efficiency and performance:

  • Partition datasets into smaller chunks that can be run with optimal parallelism for multiple queries.
  • Partition the data such that queries don't end up requiring too much data from other partitions. Minimize cross-partition data transfers.
  • Design effective folder structures to improve the efficiency of data reads and writes.
  • Partition data such that a significant amount of data can be pruned while running queries.
  • Partition in units of data that can be easily added, deleted, swapped...
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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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