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inovex GmbH
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inovex GmbH is the company blog at inovex.de, writing about programming, systems and data. Since 2016, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “AOSP: Advanced Development Tricks”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this inovex post on efficient PySpark UDAFs when discussing Spark performance, as a pointer that UDFs are generally to be avoided where possible.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
inovex ist ein innovations- und qualitätsgetriebenes IT-Projekthaus mit dem Leistungsschwerpunkt „Digitale Transformation“.
Most-linked posts?
- AOSP: Advanced Development Tricks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-08
What Hacker News says?
Karthik, I'm no Spark expert but almost all advice I read is to avoid UDFs if at all possible. Examples below: - https://medium.com/teads-engineering/spark-performance-tunin... - https://www.inovex.de/blog/efficient-udafs-with-pyspark/
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