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Write Production Code

Explore best practices for writing production code that is easy to maintain and understand. Learn to organize variables and functions, add docstrings, and use type annotations. Apply these skills to build reusable pipelines in Pandas and PySpark for reading, renaming, selecting, repartitioning, and saving data efficiently.

Overview

In production-level environments, writing code that is easy for the entire team to understand and maintain is key. There are a few general guidelines for writing production-level code, as shown below:

  • Use global scope as little as possible for variables, as this will reduce mutation bugs in the code.

  • Add ...