---
title: "PySpark in 2023: A Year in Review"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/pyspark-in-2023-a-year-in-review-df5lxwwgn
source_url: https://www.databricks.com/blog/pyspark-2023-year-review
type: article
source: "databricks"
published: 2024-03-25T15:42:04.369Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:39:06.345Z
tags: ["apache-spark", "pyspark"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 1
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# PySpark in 2023: A Year in Review

**[databricks](https://daily.dev/sources/databricks)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Apache Spark 3.4 and 3.5 in 2023 introduced several new features and improvements to PySpark, including Spark Connect for remote connectivity, Arrow-optimized Python UDFs for better performance, and the English SDK to simplify PySpark programming.

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