What is the role of Spark Driver in spark applications?
Answer / Awadhesh Kumar Singh
The Driver program in Apache Spark creates an execution graph, launches Executor processes, and manages their work. It's responsible for initializing SparkContext, reading input data, creating RDDs (Resilient Distributed Datasets), and specifying transformations and actions to be performed on the data.
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