Leveraging Spark 3 and NVIDIA’s GPUs to Reduce Cloud Cost by up to 70% for Big Data Pipelines

By Ilay Chen and Tomer AkiravAt PayPal, hundreds of thousands of Apache Spark jobs run on an hourly basis, processing petabytes of data and requiring a high volume of resources. To handle the growth of machine learning solutions, PayPal requires scalable environments, cost awareness and constant innovation. This blog explains how Apache Spark 3 and GPUs can help enterprises potentially reduce Apache Spark’s jobs cloud costs by up to 70% for big data processing and AI applications.Our journey wil...