Moving towards the DataFrame API using the Spark Connect gRPC API in .NET
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Goal of this post So there are two goals of this post, the first is to take a look at Apache Arrow and how we can...
2024-02-05
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Exploring the Spark Connect gRPC API more
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Goal of this post In this post we will continue looking at the gRPC API and the AnalyzePlan method which takes a plan and analyzes it....
2024-02-01
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Exploring the Spark Connect gRPC API
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Goal of this post In the first two posts, we looked at how to run some Spark code, firstly against a local Spark Connect server and...
2024-01-26
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Using Spark Connect from .NET to run Spark jobs on Databricks
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Goal of this post This post aims to show how we can create a .NET application, deploy it to Databricks, and then run a Databricks job...
2024-01-24 (first published: 2024-01-23)
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Using Spark Connect from .NET
Introductory Ramble Spark Connect In July 2022, at the Data and AI summit, Apache Spark announced “Spark Connect,” which was a way of connecting to Apache Spark using the...
2024-01-31 (first published: 2024-01-17)
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Spark Connect Dotnet First Major Milestone
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When I wrote the spark-connect-dotnet lib I didn’t envisage that I would implement every function, instead it would be a combination of implementing the most common...
2024-01-17
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Spark Connect References https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/spark-connect-overview.html
https://www.databricks.com/blog/2022/07/07/introducing-spark-connect-the-power-of-apache-spark-everywhere.html
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Source gRPC proto files https://github.com/apache/spark/tree/master/connector/connect/common/src/main/protobuf/spark/connect
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2024-01-01
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ADF: Error trying to debug pipeline: BadRequest
I made a mistake recently when I was creating an ADF pipeline, annoyingly I made loads of changes and then clicked the debug button, when I pressed debug the...
2021-03-17 (first published: 2021-03-12)
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ADF: Error trying to debug pipeline: BadRequest
I made a mistake recently when I was creating an ADF pipeline, annoyingly I made loads of changes and then clicked the debug button, when I pressed debug the...
2021-03-12
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ADF: Querying JSON documents
In my previous blog post I talked about how to read from an XML Webervice and use xpath to query the XML on the expressions side of things. You...
2021-03-04 (first published: 2021-02-26)
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