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title: "Apache Spark Optimization - Air Market"
description: "You have a data processing job that takes far longer than it should, or one that started struggling as the data grew. This helps you work out where the time is going and adjust things like how the da…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/spark-optimization"
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[Air Market](/) / [Data & Analytics](/category/data) / Apache Spark Optimization

Skill by [Seth Hobson](/@wshobson)

# Apache Spark Optimization

For jobs that finish eventually but should finish sooner

## What this does

You have a data processing job that takes far longer than it should, or one that started struggling as the data grew. This helps you work out where the time is going and adjust things like how the data is split up, what gets kept in memory, and how much gets moved around. Reach for it when a job is slow and you cannot see why.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Find out why a job is running slowly
- Tune partitioning and caching on a job
- Cut down shuffle work in a pipeline

## Information

**Apache Spark Optimization at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Seth Hobson](/@wshobson) |
| Category | [Data & Analytics](/category/data) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 13 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [wshobson/agents](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/data-engineering/skills/spark-optimization) |
| GitHub stars | 39,077 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 11,078, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Apache Spark Optimization and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Apache Spark Optimization's check was run against**

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| --- | --- |
| Commit | be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f |
| Content hash | 1685481b310def5aaab57ae88656bf23b5a7384511db4146bfad529a6a3923d5 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/wshobson/agents/blob/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/data-engineering/skills/spark-optimization/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Apache Spark Optimization](/security/spark-optimization)

## About Apache Spark Optimization

This is aimed at Apache Spark jobs that are slower than they need to be. It covers partitioning, caching, shuffle optimization, and memory tuning as the levers you have.

Use it when you are trying to improve performance on a Spark job, when you are debugging one that is running slowly, or when you are scaling a data processing pipeline.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/details.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Apache Spark Optimization safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Apache Spark Optimization and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit be57c0b2e3c0, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/spark-optimization.

### How do I install Apache Spark Optimization?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/spark-optimization on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/wshobson/agents/tree/be57c0b2e3c05c528ca6132b87410b385718775f/plugins/data-engineering/skills/spark-optimization. Install from that link, not the branch.

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