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Spark Architecture Deep Dive

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Explain the key components of Apache Spark’s architecture, including what Spark executors and the Spark driver are, how they communicate, the difference between a DataFrame and an RDD, the main functions of the Spark Catalyst Optimizer, how Spark handles fault tolerance, and why lazy evaluation is beneficial.