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Explain how Glue's Spark-based architecture handles data parallelism.

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Explain how HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) stores data across nodes.

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Explain how I handle performance optimizations, scheduling tasks, and monitoring DAGs in Airflow.

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Explain how Kafka handles real-time data streaming and guarantees message delivery.

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Explain how Spark groups transformations into stages. What causes a stage boundary?

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Explain how Spark handles data partitioning and the role of shuffles in performance tuning.

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Explain how Spark processes a 500GB file, covering memory allocation, shuffles, and spillovers to disk.

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Explain how spark.read.format("delta").load() works

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