Spark Shuffle Partitions: Optimizing Your Data Processing

Matthew Salminen
3 min readDec 22, 2023
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Apache Spark is the one of the most widely know big-data analytics frameworks allowing data engineers to utilize large scale data pipelines. In terms of data processing your tables, I wanted to introduce and explain a little about shuffle partitions, a fundamental but important feature within Spark for your data processing performance.

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Matthew Salminen

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