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Quiz: Distributed Compute — When Spark Belongs in Your Stack

Spark for DE: when warehouse SQL isn't enough; PySpark patterns; Databricks vs open-source Spark; when not to use Spark.

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When is Apache Spark the right architectural choice over in-warehouse SQL (Snowflake, BigQuery, dbt)?