Writing Spark applications Spark, written in Scala, provides a unified abstraction layer for data processing, making it a great environment for developing data applications.

This will enable accelerated data transfer between Vertica and Spark, allowing organizations to take full advantage of their Spark-based deployments.

These real-world struggles inspired me to write the book, Hands-On Big Data Engineering: From Architecture to Deployment, to guide companies on building scalable, AI-ready data systems.