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September 2021

Troubleshooting Databricks

The popularity of Databricks is rocketing skyward, and it is now the leading multi-cloud platform for Spark and analytics workloads, offering fully managed Spark clusters in the cloud. Databricks is fast and organizations generally refactor their applications when moving them to Databricks. The result is strong performance. However, as usage of Databricks grows, so does the importance of reliability for Databricks jobs - especially big data jobs such as Spark workloads. But information you need for troubleshooting is scattered across multiple, voluminous log files.

Spark Troubleshooting Solutions - DataOps, Spark UI or logs, Platform or APM Tools

Spark is known for being extremely difficult to debug. But this is not all Spark’s fault. Problems in running a Spark job can be the result of problems with the infrastructure Spark is running on, inappropriate configuration of Spark, Spark issues, the currently running Spark job, other Spark jobs running at the same time – or interactions among these layers.

Migrating Data Pipelines from Enterprise Schedulers to Airflow

At Airflow Summit 2021, Unravel’s co-founder and CTO, Shivnath Babu and Hari Nyer, Senior Software Engineer, delivered a talk titled Lessons Learned while Migrating Data Pipelines from Enterprise Schedulers to Airflow. This story, along with the slides and videos included in it, comes from the presentation.