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spark-basics
PySpark fundamentals for distributed data processing.
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SKILL.md
Spark Basics
SparkSession
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession
spark = SparkSession.builder \
.appName("ETL Job") \
.config("spark.sql.adaptive.enabled", "true") \
.getOrCreate()
Reading Data
# CSV
df = spark.read.csv("s3://bucket/data.csv", header=True, inferSchema=True)
# Parquet
df = spark.read.parquet("s3://bucket/data/")
# JSON
df = spark.read.json("s3://bucket/data.json")
# Delta Lake
df = spark.read.format("delta").load("s3://bucket/delta/")
Transformations
from pyspark.sql import functions as F
# Select and rename
df = df.select(
F.col("id").alias("user_id"),
F.col("name"),
F.col("created_at").cast("timestamp")
)
# Filter
df = df.filter(F.col("status") == "active")
# Aggregate
summary = df.groupBy("category").agg(
F.count("*").alias("count"),
F.sum("amount").alias("total"),
F.avg("amount").alias("average")
)
# Join
result = orders.join(customers, "customer_id", "left")
# Window functions
from pyspark.sql.window import Window
window = Window.partitionBy("user_id").orderBy("created_at")
df = df.withColumn("row_num", F.row_number().over(window))
Writing Data
# Parquet with partitions
df.write \
.partitionBy("year", "month") \
.mode("overwrite") \
.parquet("s3://bucket/output/")
# Delta Lake
df.write \
.format("delta") \
.mode("merge") \
.save("s3://bucket/delta/")
Optimization
- Use
cache()for reused DataFrames - Avoid
collect()on large data - Broadcast small tables
- Repartition before joins
- Use predicate pushdown
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