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quinn
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Brainstorming functions to make PySpark easier
We're brainstorming functions to make PySpark easier, see this issue: https://github.com/MrPowers/quinn/issues/83
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PySpark OSS Contribution Opportunity
Adding some README documentation to the README should be quite straightforward. Here's a function that needs to be documented: https://github.com/MrPowers/quinn/issues/52 .
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Invitation to collaborate on open source PySpark projects
quinn is a library with PySpark helper functions. I need to work through all the open issues / PRs and bump all versions. I should do another release. This library gets around 600,000 monthly downloads.
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Pyspark now provides a native Pandas API
Pandas syntax is far inferior to regular PySpark in my opinion. Goes to show how much data analysts value a syntax that they're already familiar with. Pandas syntax makes it harder to reason about queries, abstract DataFrame transformations, etc. I've authored some popular PySpark libraries like quinn and chispa and am not excited to add Pandas syntax support, haha.
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Register Native Functions in PySpark
Here's how I added a create_df method to the SparkSession class: https://github.com/MrPowers/quinn/blob/main/quinn/extensions/spark_session_ext.py
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Is Spark - The Defenitive Guide outdated?
They spent a lot of effort improving the catalyst engine under the hood too and making it easier to extend and improve it in the future. Making it easy to add your own native code to Spark itself. Shameless plug of a blog post I wrote on this subject which basically reiterates what Matthew Powers, author of Spark Daria and quinn, wrote here.
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Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
I built daria (https://github.com/MrPowers/spark-daria) to make it easier to write Spark and spark-fast-tests (https://github.com/MrPowers/spark-fast-tests) to provide a good testing workflow.
quinn (https://github.com/MrPowers/quinn) and chispa (https://github.com/MrPowers/chispa) are the PySpark equivalents.
Built bebe (https://github.com/MrPowers/bebe) to expose the Spark Catalyst expressions that aren't exposed to the Scala / Python APIs.
Also build spark-sbt.g8 to create a Spark project with a single command: https://github.com/MrPowers/spark-sbt.g8
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Open source contributions for a Data Engineer?
I've built popular PySpark (quinn, chispa) and Scala Spark (spark-daria, spark-fast-tests) libraries.
chispa
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Testing spark applications
Unit and e2e tests using a combination of pytest and chispa (https://github.com/MrPowers/chispa). Custom library to create random test data that fits schema with optional hardcoded overrides for relevant fields to test business logic.
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Spark open source community is awesome
here's a little README fix a user pushed to chispa
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Invitation to collaborate on open source PySpark projects
chispa is a library of PySpark testing functions.
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installing pyspark on my m1 mac, getting an env error
The other approach I've used is Poetry, see the chispa project as an example. Poetry is especially nice for projects that you'd like to publish to PyPi because those commands are built-in.
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Spark: local dev environment
- All Spark transformations are tested with pytest + chispa (https://github.com/MrPowers/chispa)
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Pyspark now provides a native Pandas API
Pandas syntax is far inferior to regular PySpark in my opinion. Goes to show how much data analysts value a syntax that they're already familiar with. Pandas syntax makes it harder to reason about queries, abstract DataFrame transformations, etc. I've authored some popular PySpark libraries like quinn and chispa and am not excited to add Pandas syntax support, haha.
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Show dataengineering: beavis, a library for unit testing Pandas/Dask code
I am the author of spark-fast-tests and chispa, libraries for unit testing Scala Spark / PySpark code.
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Tips for building popular open source data engineering projects
Blogging has been the main way I've been able to attract users. Someone searches "testing PySpark", they see this blog, and then they're motivated to try chispa.
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Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
I built daria (https://github.com/MrPowers/spark-daria) to make it easier to write Spark and spark-fast-tests (https://github.com/MrPowers/spark-fast-tests) to provide a good testing workflow.
quinn (https://github.com/MrPowers/quinn) and chispa (https://github.com/MrPowers/chispa) are the PySpark equivalents.
Built bebe (https://github.com/MrPowers/bebe) to expose the Spark Catalyst expressions that aren't exposed to the Scala / Python APIs.
Also build spark-sbt.g8 to create a Spark project with a single command: https://github.com/MrPowers/spark-sbt.g8
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Open source contributions for a Data Engineer?
I've built popular PySpark (quinn, chispa) and Scala Spark (spark-daria, spark-fast-tests) libraries.
What are some alternatives?
spark-daria - Essential Spark extensions and helper methods ✨😲
spark-fast-tests - Apache Spark testing helpers (dependency free & works with Scalatest, uTest, and MUnit)
spark-rapids - Spark RAPIDS plugin - accelerate Apache Spark with GPUs
null - Nullable Go types that can be marshalled/unmarshalled to/from JSON.
lowdefy - The config web stack for business apps - build internal tools, client portals, web apps, admin panels, dashboards, web sites, and CRUD apps with YAML or JSON.
fugue - A unified interface for distributed computing. Fugue executes SQL, Python, Pandas, and Polars code on Spark, Dask and Ray without any rewrites.
etl-markup-toolkit - ETL Markup Toolkit is a spark-native tool for expressing ETL transformations as configuration
dagster - An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.