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Week 1 · Day 6 · 70-minute reading · 3 widgets · 12-question quiz

spark-submit & Application Deployment

How you actually run things in production: spark-submit flags, packaging, dependency management, and the operational mechanics of deploys.

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What you'll cover on Day 6

Once live, Day 6 runs roughly 70 minutes of reading paired with 3 interactive visualizations, followed by a 12-question self-check quiz. The reading is grounded in the official Apache Spark documentation — every claim cites the docs.

  • spark-submit flags in depth
  • Packaging applications and dependencies
  • JARs, --py-files, archive distribution
  • Resource configuration for production
  • Logging and monitoring in deployed jobs

Why this day matters

By the end of Day 6 you'll be able to explain spark-submit & application deployment confidently — not just describe it, but reason about edge cases, predict performance, and read a Spark UI for the concepts it touches. That's the bar this study path aims for: not memorization, but the kind of working understanding that lets you debug real jobs.