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A developer on the team was running the following line in a function for logging purposes, and the job crashed with an "out of memory" exception. The developer says that the cluster has many workers with a lot of memory and disk and still the job crashes. Can you help explain how come to this line makes the job crash with OOM even though the cluster is huge? def someFunc(): for row in df.collect(): print(f'Customerr{row["customer"]} => Paid {row["price"]}')
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Senior Data Engineer

Interviewed at AppsFlyer

4.1
Mar 16, 2023

A developer on the team was running the following line in a function for logging purposes, and the job crashed with an "out of memory" exception. The developer says that the cluster has many workers with a lot of memory and disk and still the job crashes. Can you help explain how come to this line makes the job crash with OOM even though the cluster is huge? def someFunc(): for row in df.collect(): print(f'Customerr{row["customer"]} => Paid {row["price"]}')

How did you design data lake what are the three layers. How did you design using what services. why this services over the other Difference between schema in data warehouse Whats the purpose of this service. How you would store some secret keys and how you would secure the data. what are the methods and how you did it. whats the typical project activities dev,test,prod the cycle.
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Senior Data Lake Software Engineer

Interviewed at Humana

3.6
Jul 27, 2023

How did you design data lake what are the three layers. How did you design using what services. why this services over the other Difference between schema in data warehouse Whats the purpose of this service. How you would store some secret keys and how you would secure the data. what are the methods and how you did it. whats the typical project activities dev,test,prod the cycle.

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