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Engineering Director Databricks

Xiao Li is an Engineering Director at Databricks, an Apache Spark Committer, and a PMC member. He has a deep interest in Spark and database engines. Previously, he was an IBM Master Inventor and an expert in asynchronous database replication and consistency verification. Xiao earned his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 2011.

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Deep Dive into the New Features of Apache Spark™ 3.4

Deep Dive into the New Features of Apache Spark™ 3.4

2023-07-25 · Databricks DATA + AI Summit 2023 Watch
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with Xiao Li (Databricks) , Daniel Tenedorio (Databricks)
Databricks Jira PySpark Spark SQL

Join us for this Technical Deep Dive session. In 2022, Apache Spark™ was awarded the prestigious SIGMOD Systems Award, because Spark is the de facto standard for data processing.

In this session, we will share the latest progress in Apache Spark community. With tremendous contribution from the open source community, Spark 3.4 managed to resolve in excess of 2,400 Jira tickets. We will talk about the major features and improvements in Spark 3.4. The major updates are Spark Connect, numerous PySpark and SQL language features, engine performance enhancements, as well as operational improvements in Spark UX and error handling.

Talk by: Xiao Li and Daniel Tenedorio

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