In this chapter, you saw how difficult the testing and debugging your Spark applications are. These can even be more critical in a distributed environment. We also discussed some advanced ways to tackle them altogether. In summary, you learned the way of testing in a distributed environment. Then you learned a better way of testing your Spark application. Finally, we discussed some advanced ways of debugging Spark applications.
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This is more or less the end of our little journey with advanced topics on Spark. Now...