AI Engineer YouTube · July 20, 2026

Medic for Apache Spark - First Aid for Failing Jobs - Drasko Profirovic, Pinterest

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Why it matters

In this talk, we’ll share the journey of building an agentic diagnostics tool to address one of the most time-consuming challenges in data engineering: troubleshooting Spark job failures at scale. As Spark workloads and platform complexity continue to grow, traditional dashboards and static playbooks are no longer suff

My takeaway: Medic for Apache Spark - First Aid for Failing Jobs - Drasko Profirovic, Pinterest is an agent-security signal. The practical read is that autonomy, memory, tool permissions, and third-party integrations are the control surface that needs threat modeling and monitoring.