Until recently, the process of picking up a certain number of partitions against a set of data files, always looked mysterious to me. However, recently, during an optimization routine, I wanted to change the default number of partitions picked by Spark for processing a set of data files, and that is when I started to decode this process comprehensively along with proofs. Hopefully, the description of this decoded process would also help the readers to understand Spark a bit deeper and would enable them to design an efficient and optimized Spark routine.
This is important information if you’re tuning Spark cluster performance.