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Optimize Slow Spark Jobs

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Tell me about how you would resolve a situation where a Spark job takes too long to execute, and how you would use Spark UI to diagnose it.

Explain a practical, systematic investigation from job symptoms through remediation. Cover how you distinguish input, CPU, memory, shuffle, skew, serialization, and cluster-resource problems, and how you validate that an optimization improved runtime without changing results.