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SimilarWeb Case Study: How AI-Powered Spark Tuning Achieved 90x Faster Performance and 160x Cost Reduction
Case Studies

SimilarWeb Case Study: How AI-Powered Spark Tuning Achieved 90x Faster Performance and 160x Cost Reduction

SimilarWeb had a critical Spark job failing after 22 hours on 200 machines. Using DataFlint's AI-powered Spark optimization, we identified the root cause in minutes. The result: 90X faster, 160X cheaper, with just 4 lines of code changes.

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Daniel & Meni
15 min read
Spark Performance Tuning: Master the Execution Hierarchy to Optimize Spark Jobs
Tutorials

Spark Performance Tuning: Master the Execution Hierarchy to Optimize Spark Jobs

Learn spark performance tuning by understanding how Applications, Jobs, Stages, and Tasks work. Master spark shuffle optimization, spark DAG optimization, and spark query optimization for faster data pipelines and databricks cost optimization.

DA
MS
Daniel & Meni
10 min read
The Open-Source Spark Monitoring Tool That Fixes Performance Bottlenecks and Reduces EMR & Databricks Costs
Open Source

The Open-Source Spark Monitoring Tool That Fixes Performance Bottlenecks and Reduces EMR & Databricks Costs

DataFlint's open-source Spark monitoring tool transforms debugging with visual query plans, real-time bottleneck detection, and cost optimization for EMR, Databricks, and GKE clusters. Reduce Spark costs by up to 40% in minutes.

DA
MS
Daniel & Meni
12 min read
How to Debug and Optimize Apache Spark Jobs in Under 3 Minutes: The Journey to Building the First Spark AI Copilot
Performance Optimization

How to Debug and Optimize Apache Spark Jobs in Under 3 Minutes: The Journey to Building the First Spark AI Copilot

The journey to building the first Spark AI Copilot that's bringing AI-powered code optimization to big data engineering. Learn how we achieved 100X performance improvements.

DA
MS
Daniel & Meni
8 min read

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