This document summarizes Sim Simeonov's presentation on building reliable and scalable data processing jobs using Spark. Some key points include: - Swoop provides tools to make Spark jobs 5-10x faster, 8x more reliable, and root cause analysis 10-100x faster. - Idempotent operations are needed to reliably append new data batches without overwriting existing data. - Partitioning data by time, job, and category allows idempotent overwrite of only new partitions. - Spark extensions can provide resilient data handling, error tracking, and fast root cause analysis for failures. - Following best practices around simplicity, implicit context, and idempotent I/O can help create "