Deep Dive into Spark SQL Metrics (Part 6): Metrics In Action — TPC-DS q99 with Gluten

Part 6 of the SQL Metrics series. A real-world walkthrough of TPC-DS q99 at SF10000 with Gluten/Velox, reading every metric to understand what happened during execution.

April 2, 2026 · 13 min · Kent Yao

Introducing spark-advisor: An AI-Powered Spark Performance Engineer

spark-advisor is an agent skill that turns your AI coding assistant into a Spark performance engineer — diagnosing slow jobs, detecting skew, comparing benchmark runs, and producing actionable tuning recommendations.

March 20, 2026 · 4 min · Kent Yao