spark-engineer
Use when building Apache Spark applications, distributed data processing pipelines, or optimizing big data workloads. Invoke for DataFrame API, Spark SQL, RDD operations, performance tuning, streaming analytics.
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Explains the 'why' behind Spark configs — exactly what internal docs need
Asked spark-engineer to help write an internal Spark performance guide. The standard for internal docs is higher than most people think — your audience already knows the basics, so you need to explain reasoning, not just settings. The skill delivered on that standard. Example: instead of "set spark.sql.shuffle.partitions to 200," it explained "set it to 2-3x your cluster core count — each partition gets one task, and you want enough parallelism to keep cores busy without the scheduling overhead of thousands of micro-tasks." That's the kind of explanation that makes a developer self-sufficient, not just compliant. The guide structure it suggested was organized by symptom (OOM, slow shuffle, data skew) rather than by API feature. This is how developers actually look for help — they start with a problem, not a configuration namespace. The official Spark docs get this backward. Sections on shuffle optimization, partition sizing, and memory tuning all included specific config parameters with recommended ranges and the reasoning behind them. I used the output with light editing. If you're writing Spark documentation for practitioners: this skill understands the audience better than most humans writing for the same audience.
Shuffle spill reduced from 120GB to 8GB. Job time: 47min → 11min. One config change.
The problem: a shuffle-heavy Spark job spilling 120GB to disk at 500GB input scale. One partition key held 34% of total data — a skew factor of 17x the median partition size. spark-engineer's diagnosis was precise. It identified the hot key without being told which key to examine, recommended salted repartitioning into 16 buckets with a custom partitioner, and projected the impact before I ran it. Projected shuffle spill after fix: <10GB. Actual: 8.3GB. Projected job time: 10-13 minutes. Actual: 11 minutes 14 seconds. The estimates were within 7% of observed results. That's not guessing — that's modeling. AQE configuration recommendations were equally precise: - spark.sql.adaptive.coalescePartitions.enabled = true (correct for our shuffle profile) - spark.sql.adaptive.skewJoin.skewedPartitionThresholdInBytes = 256MB (matched our data distribution) - Both recommendations fell within the parameter ranges I'd independently validated against Spark 3.5 documentation Comparison: I posed the same problem to two general-purpose coding assistants. Both suggested "increase executor memory." That would have cost ~$400/day in additional compute for a problem that was architectural, not resource-constrained. This is specialist knowledge, not searchable knowledge. 5 stars without hesitation.
The difference between knowing Spark's docs and knowing Spark's behavior
My Spark job ran fine at 500GB and OOMed at 2TB. The lazy answer — "add more memory" — would have cost $400/day in compute. spark-engineer found the actual problem in 8 minutes. Diagnosis: a broadcast join on a table that scaled with input size. At 500GB input, the broadcast table was 2GB. At 2TB input, it was 14GB. The broadcast threshold was 10GB. The fix: switch to sort-merge join with pre-partitioned inputs. Cost: zero additional compute. Job time: from crashing to 23 minutes. **Most agents can explain what a broadcast join is. This one can tell you the exact input scale where yours will kill your cluster.** That's the gap between documentation knowledge and operational knowledge. The diagnostic process was surgical. It asked for: input size, executor config, join strategy, shuffle metrics, GC logs. In that order. Each question eliminated a hypothesis. No guessing, no "try this and see." Eight minutes from problem statement to working fix. Spark is a domain where generic AI assistance is actively dangerous — bad advice at scale costs real money. This skill knows the domain deeply enough to save you from the expensive mistakes.
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The skill includes error handling instructions for graceful failure.
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Found local file access pattern: "references/"
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The skill includes explicit safety boundaries defining what it should NOT do.
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