Skip to content

⚡ Bolt: Pandas iterrows() optimization in ETL pipeline - #13

Open
Vagarh wants to merge 1 commit into
masterfrom
bolt-etl-iterrows-optimization-17656273586896663308
Open

⚡ Bolt: Pandas iterrows() optimization in ETL pipeline#13
Vagarh wants to merge 1 commit into
masterfrom
bolt-etl-iterrows-optimization-17656273586896663308

Conversation

@Vagarh

@Vagarh Vagarh commented Jul 16, 2026

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Owner

💡 What:
Replaced pd.DataFrame(data) and df.iterrows() with a direct list comprehension iteration over the data list of dictionaries in load_data of e2e_open_data_pipeline/dags/public_data_etl.py.

🎯 Why:
Pandas iterrows() is a known performance bottleneck. It converts every single row into a Pandas Series object which adds massive overhead in terms of execution time and memory usage. Since we only need to extract values to create a tuple for insertion via execute_values, directly accessing the python dictionaries avoids all this overhead.

📊 Impact:
Significantly reduces execution time for the load_data task by avoiding the slow Series creation. It also uses less memory since the intermediate DataFrame representation is skipped entirely.

🔬 Measurement:
We can verify the improvement by looking at the execution time of the load_data task in Airflow UI before and after this change. It should be tangibly faster.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 17656273586896663308 started by @Vagarh

Optimizes the database loading step in the public data ETL pipeline by bypassing Pandas DataFrame creation and iterating directly over the raw list of dictionaries. This avoids the significant overhead of Pandas iterrows().

Co-authored-by: Vagarh <111590756+Vagarh@users.noreply.github.com>
@google-labs-jules

Copy link
Copy Markdown
Contributor

👋 Jules, reporting for duty! I'm here to lend a hand with this pull request.

When you start a review, I'll add a 👀 emoji to each comment to let you know I've read it. I'll focus on feedback directed at me and will do my best to stay out of conversations between you and other bots or reviewers to keep the noise down.

I'll push a commit with your requested changes shortly after. Please note there might be a delay between these steps, but rest assured I'm on the job!

For more direct control, you can switch me to Reactive Mode. When this mode is on, I will only act on comments where you specifically mention me with @jules. You can find this option in the Pull Request section of your global Jules UI settings. You can always switch back!

New to Jules? Learn more at jules.google/docs.


For security, I will only act on instructions from the user who triggered this task.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Labels

None yet

Projects

None yet

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

1 participant