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O’Reilly + Cloudera
Make Data Work
29 April–2 May 2019
London, UK
Mikayla Konst

Mikayla Konst
Software Engineer, Google

Mikayla Konst is a software engineer on the Cloud Dataproc team at Google. She helped launch Dataproc’s high availability mode and the Workflow Templates API. She’s currently working on improvements to shuffle and autoscaling.

Sessions

14:55–15:35 Wednesday, 1 May 2019
Improving Spark downscaling; Or, Not throwing away all of our work
Data Engineering and Architecture
 Location: S11 A
Secondary topics:  AI and Data technologies in the cloud
Holden Karau (Independent), Mikayla Konst (Google), Ben Sidhom (Google)
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As more workloads move to severless-like environments, the importance of properly handling downscaling increases. Holden Karau, Mikayla Konst, and Ben Sidhom explore approaches for improving the scale-down experience on open source cluster managers—everything from how to schedule jobs to the location of blocks and their impact. Read more.