How to performance-tune Spark applications in large clusters
Who is this presentation for?
- Software developers and managers
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Description
Omkar Joshi and Bo Yang offer an overview on how performance challenges were addressed at Uber while rolling out its newly built flagship ingestion system, Marmaray (open-sourced) for data ingestion from various sources like Kafka, MySQL, Cassandra, and Hadoop. This system is rolled out in production and has been running for over a year now, with more ingestion systems onboarded on top of it. Omar and Bo heavily used jvm-profiler during their analysis to give them valuable insights.
This new system is built using the Spark framework for data ingestion. It’s designed to ingest billions of Kafka messages per topic from thousands of topics every 30 minutes. The amount of data handled by the pipeline is of the order hundreds of TBs. At this scale, every byte and millisecond saved counts. Omar and Bo detail how to tackle such problems and insights into the optimizations already done in production. Some key highlights are how to understand your bottlenecks in Spark applications, to cache or not to cache your Spark DAG to avoid rereading your input data, how to effectively use accumulators to avoid unnecessary Spark actions, how to inspect your heap and nonheap memory usage across hundreds of executors, how you can change the layout of your data to save long-term storage cost, how to effectively use serializers and compression to save network and disk traffic, and how to reduce amortize the cost of your application by multiplexing your jobs.
They used different techniques for reducing memory footprint, runtime, and on-disk usage for the running applications. In terms of savings, CGI was able to significantly (~10%–40%) reduce memory footprint, runtime, and disk usage.
Prerequisite knowledge
- A basic understanding of running Spark applications
What you'll learn
- Learn how to understand bottlenecks in your Spark applications, to cache or not to cache your Spark DAG to avoid rereading your input data, how to effectively use accumulators to avoid unnecessary Spark actions, how to inspect your heap and nonheap memory usage across hundreds of executors, how you can change the layout of your data to save long-term storage cost, how to effectively use serializers and compression to save network and disk traffic, and how to reduce amortize the cost of your application by multiplexing your jobs
Omkar Joshi
Uber
Omkar Joshi is a senior software engineer on Uber’s Hadoop platform team, where he’s architecting Marmaray. Omkar has a keen interest in solving large-scale distributed systems problems. Previously, he led object store and NFS solutions at Hedvig and was an initial contributor to Hadoop’s YARN scheduler.
Bo Yang
Uber
Bo Yang is a software engineer at Uber.
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