Deep Dive into PySpark Implementation: Multi‑Process Architecture, Java Integration, RDD/SQL Interfaces, Executor Communication, and Pandas UDF
This article explains PySpark's multi‑process architecture, how the Python driver uses Py4J to call Java/Scala APIs, the implementation of RDD and DataFrame interfaces, executor‑side process communication and serialization with Arrow, and the design of Pandas UDFs, while also discussing current limitations and future directions.
