Mike Staszel

Building software engineering teams.

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I build products, solve problems, and grow teams.

I’m an engineering manager at Capital One working credit card servicing tech.

I occasionally write about software engineering, engineering management, growing teams, building cool things, side projects, and tech in general.

Saving Money on Spark Jobs With Karpenter

A typical modern Spark stack nowadays most likely runs Spark jobs on a Kubernetes cluster, especially for heavy usage. Workloads are moving away from EMR on EC2 to either EMR on EKS or open-source Spark on EKS. When you’re running Spark on EKS, you probably want to scale your Kubernetes nodes up and down as you need them. You might only need to run a few jobs per day, or you might need to run hundreds of jobs, each with different resource requirements.

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Resetting the Blog

Hi there, I’m Mike. 🔭 I’m currently working on big data engineering with Spark on k8s on AWS at iSpot.tv. 🌱 I’m focusing on mentoring and coaching my team to improve their skills and release awesome products. 🌎 I occasionally write blog posts about software engineering and other topics. Management and Software Engineering I consider myself to be a software engineer at heart. Nowadays I’m trying to do less code-writing and more of everything else:

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