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Spotify Engineering·Feb 12, 2021·11 min read·Neville Li +4 others49

How Spotify Optimized the Largest Dataflow Job Ever for Wrapped 2020 | Spotify Engineering

In this post we’ll discuss how Spotify optimized and sped up elements from our largest Dataflow job, , for using a technique called Sort Merge Bucket (SMB) join. We’ll present the design and implementation of SMB and how we incorporated it into our data pipelines.

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