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Process Big Data Using PySpark

  1. PySpark 2.4 and older does not support Python 3.8. You have to use Python 3.7 with PySpark 2.4 or older.

  2. It can be extremely helpful to run a PySpark application locally to detect possible issues before submitting it to the Spark cluster.

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Concurrency and Parallel Computing in Python

The GIL is controversial because it prevents multithreaded CPython programs from taking full advantage of multiprocessor systems in certain situations. Note that potentially blocking or long-running operations, such as I/O, image processing, and NumPy number crunching, happen outside the GIL. Therefore it is only in multithreaded programs that spend …

Parallel Computing Using Multithreading

  1. Not all jobs are suitable for parallel computing. The more comminication that threads has to make, the more dependent the jobs are and the less efficient the parallel computing is.

  2. Generally speaking, commercial softwares (Mathematica, MATLAB and Revolution R, etc.) have very good support on parallel computing.

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