# Put it all together: tune a distributed Spark pipeline

Canonical URL: <https://datadriven.io/problems/put-it-all-together-tune-a-distributed-spark-pipeline-hand-358d11a2>

Domain: Pipeline Design · Difficulty: medium

## Problem

Put it all together: tune a distributed Spark pipeline. Handle shuffle skew at the layout layer, compact small files into right-sized output, gate the daily run on its SLA with alerting, and validate output before publishing.

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