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How I Taught an AI to Read My Logs

Our short summary of Expedia’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.

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Problem

Engineers spent hours manually reading Spark execution plans to find slow or expensive jobs.

Solution

Created an AI skill that automatically reads execution plans and table metadata, matches them to actual runtime behavior, and flags costly pipelines for optimization.

Daily compute cost dropped over 90%

Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.

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