How AI increase drive-through sales for Starbucks (Data+A.I. summit 2022)

This post summarize a great sharing on Data+A.I. summit 2022 on how Starbucks implements a Reinforcement Learning solution to improve its sales in drive-through scenario.

Understanding Spark Connect (Reynold Xin’s keynote on Data+AI Summit 2022)

"Spark Connect" creates a "thin client" to enable Spark query capability on low-compute devices, with re-architected Spark Driver to get around some short-comings in the Monolithic Driver and better support for multi-tenancy.