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Published 2026-08-25 in Data Engineering

π–πšπ­πžπ«π¦πšπ«π€π’π§π  β†’ Watermarking helps handle late-arriving data in event-time processing. β†’ It defines how long Spark should wait for delayed events before considering them too late to process. This also helps clean up old state and prevents unnecessary memory usage. π‚π‘πžπœπ€π©π¨π’π§π­π’π§π  β†’ Checkpointing stores the state and progress of a streaming query. β†’ If a job stops due to a failure or restart, Spark resumes processing from the last checkpoint instead of starting from the beginning, enabling fault tolerance and exactly-once processing. A simple way to remember: β–ͺ️ Watermarking β†’ Decides when to stop waiting for late data. β–ͺ️ Checkpointing β†’ Decides where to resume after a failure. Both features are essential for building reliable, scalable, and fault-tolerant streaming pipelines in Databricks.

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