Russell Alexander Spitzer
where else to find them
linkedin:russell-spitzer-5697328
what they talk about
all 4 in the filters
where they keep going back
- Scale By the Bay4 editions2017–2021
on a stage with
- Artem Alievonce
who talks about the same things
nobody close enough yet
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| An Extremely Technical Overview of How Apache Iceberg Planning Actually Works | Future Data Systems Seminar Series (Fall 2025) | 2025-09-22 |
Detailed walkthrough of the Java implementation of Apache Iceberg planning shows how Spark SQL push predicates convert to iceberg expressions, how… | ||
| Multi Dimensional Clustering with Z Ordering | Scale By the Bay 2021 | 2021-10-28 |
Shows that multi-dimensional file skipping is practical by computing a per-row Z-Ordering value (by interleaving bits of lexicographically encoded columns) and… | ||
| Scale By the Bay 2021 intro video by Russell Spitzer | Scale By the Bay 2021 | 2021-10-28 |
Explains an implementation of z-ordering inside Apache Iceberg that clusters files with a Z-order curve so multi-dimensional filters avoid full table scans… | ||
| To Spark or Not to Spark | Scale By The Bay 2019 | 2019-11-13 |
If you need joins, cross-source aggregation or a JDBC endpoint over Cassandra, Spark plus the Cassandra connector gives that: use spark thrift server for a… | ||
| Interview | Scale By The Bay 2019 | 2019-11-13 |
Explains tradeoffs of adding Spark when Cassandra already exists, claims Spark gives analytics at the cost of ops complexity and sometimes simpler solutions… | ||
| Interview | Scale By The Bay 2018 | 2018-11-15 |
Maintains the Spark Cassandra connector, a production connector used to run Spark on Cassandra data, and describes new work that uses the Catalyst optimization… | ||
| A Tale of Two Graph Engines on Spark | Scale By the Bay 2017 | 2017-11-16 |
Compares two Spark graph engines: Apache TinkerPop OLAP (Gremlin on Spark) and GraphFrames, showing concrete trade-offs. TinkerPop uses a pair RDD adjacency… | ||
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