How does Spark's Catalyst Optimizer work? Explain its stages.
Spark/Big Datahard
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Walk through the three AQE features in Spark 3.x (coalesce, join switch, skew join)—how they operate at shuffle boundaries, which configs enable them, and what happens when AQE cannot help.
Spark/Big Datahard
3
How do you design a scalable and fault-tolerant data warehouse on a cloud platform?
SQLhard
4
Explain the differences between Spark's shuffle and broadcast join. When would you use each?
Spark/Big Datahard
5
How do you monitor and debug Spark applications in production?
Spark/Big Datahard
6
How would you optimize a Spark job that takes too long to run in production?
Spark/Big Datahard
7
Design a Data Warehouse for an e-commerce platform.
System Design/Architecturehard
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