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Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark · Databricks
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- pandas_udf uses Apache Arrow for zero-copy transfer and vectorized execution on pandas Series, typically 10-100x faster than row-by-row Python UDFs. Python UDFs incur per-row serialization. Use built-in F.* functions whenever possible (best performance because they run in JVM).