databricks/spark-knowledgebase — pull request #3 by patmcdonough (2014-09-17 22:40:32+00:00)
Title: New Article on Number of Partitions

@vidaha @mateiz @pwendell - please fact check for me! This is based on a support case I'm working on.

P.S. It seems easiest to review this straight from my master branch on github: https://github.com/patmcdonough/spark-knowledgebase/blob/master/troubleshooting/how_many_partitions_does_an_rdd_have.md