LATERAL VIEW EXPLODE in Spark

For array type column, explode() will convert it to n rows, where n is the number of elements in the array. For map/dictionary type column, explode() will convert it to nx2 shape, i.e., n rows, 2 columns (for key and value).

Change Timezone in Databricks Spark

The Databricks cluster is using UTC as the default timezone. So when you run some time-related code, the displayed time is not the local time, which is not ideal. In this post, I want to share how to change the timezone setting for Databricks cluster.

Migrating from Packer.nvim to Lazy.nvim

TL;DR: Lazy.nvim is amazing. It is easy to switch and reduce your startup time immensely. Just try it!

I think Packer.nvim has been a revolutionary plugin manager after nvim 0.5. It introduces a lot of lazy loading techniques to speed up the startup process of Neovim.