Running Apache Spark experiments in my sleep (and on a plane)

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By Prashanth Gedde Narayanaswamy As one of Netflix’s largest and critical data pipelines, member-sessionizer consolidates tens of billions of hourly client events, encompassing user taps, playbacks, and engagement signals, into individual viewing sessions per profile. A quick two-week tuning effort spiraled into two months when standard approaches hit a wall. Because the failures only happened at full production sca…

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