Should Spark Be Rewritten for the Agentic Era? Engineer Riffs on MapReduce
_arohan_ · x · 2026-08-02
Developer @arohan raises an engineering architecture question: should folks rewrite Spark in the agentic era?
He questions why people live like this today and recalls his early days at Google, joking that he would need to fill out a "Jeff Dean apology form" for making MapReduce (not Flume) look so beautiful back then.
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