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  1. Issue · Aug 24, 2026

    Advancing the Open Lakehouse with Apache Spark, the Delta Kernel, and the new UC Delta APIs (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone

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  2. Issue · Aug 12, 2026

    Working with Apache Spark DataFrames, JSON, and the good ol’ StructType (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Neutral tone

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    This post is from 2018, was published on my Medium.So I have been lucky enough to work with Apache Spark for the last two years and in the countless projects I work on I find that there are usually many ways of doing the same thing, and sometimes things seem so easy but unfortunately the documentation will not cover all of your potential use cases. I am going

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