Understanding Spark 3.0 Adaptive Query Execution (AQE) and Dynamic Partition Pruning (DPP)
This article explains the two most important Spark 3.0 features—Adaptive Query Execution and Dynamic Partition Pruning—detailing how AQE dynamically optimizes join strategies, partition coalescing, and skew handling, while DPP reduces I/O by pruning irrelevant fact‑table partitions at runtime.
