New Features in Apache Spark 2.3: Continuous Streaming, Kubernetes Scheduler, Pandas UDFs, and MLlib Enhancements
Apache Spark 2.3 introduces major upgrades such as millisecond‑latency continuous streaming, stream‑to‑stream joins, a native Kubernetes scheduler backend, accelerated Pandas UDFs, and several MLlib improvements, all aimed at making big‑data processing faster, easier, and smarter.