diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4380808..43085e1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 .idea/
-.conveyor
\ No newline at end of file
+.conveyor
+.terraform/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/basic/pi_spark/Dockerfile b/basic/pi_spark/Dockerfile
index e4cd490..8d6a4df 100644
--- a/basic/pi_spark/Dockerfile
+++ b/basic/pi_spark/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM public.ecr.aws/dataminded/spark-k8s-glue:v3.5.1-hadoop-3.3.6-v1
+FROM public.ecr.aws/dataminded/spark-k8s-glue:v3.5.6-hadoop-3.3.6-v1
 
 ENV PYSPARK_PYTHON python3
 WORKDIR /opt/spark/work-dir
diff --git a/basic/pi_spark/dags/pi_spark.py b/basic/pi_spark/dags/pi_spark.py
index 2d9ccbe..12e4ba2 100644
--- a/basic/pi_spark/dags/pi_spark.py
+++ b/basic/pi_spark/dags/pi_spark.py
@@ -1,33 +1,33 @@
 from airflow import DAG
 from conveyor.operators import ConveyorSparkSubmitOperatorV2
-from datetime import timedelta
+from datetime import timedelta, datetime
 from airflow.utils import dates
 
 default_args = {
     "owner": "Conveyor",
     "depends_on_past": False,
-    "start_date": dates.days_ago(2),
     "email": [],
     "email_on_failure": False,
     "email_on_retry": False,
     "retries": 0,
+    "start_date": datetime(year=2026, month=1, day=5),
     "retry_delay": timedelta(minutes=5),
 }
 
 dag = DAG(
     "samples_pi_spark",
     default_args=default_args,
-    schedule_interval="@daily",
+    schedule="@daily",
     max_active_runs=1,
 )
 role = "conveyor-samples"
 
-sample_task = ConveyorSparkSubmitOperatorV2(
+ConveyorSparkSubmitOperatorV2(
     dag=dag,
     task_id="calculate_pi",
-    num_executors="4",
+    num_executors=2,
     driver_instance_type="mx.medium",
-    executor_instance_type="mx.medium",
+    executor_instance_type="cx.xlarge",
     instance_life_cycle="spot",  # Other options are `on-demand`, `driver-on-demand-executors-spot`
     aws_role=role,
     spark_main_version=3,
@@ -35,6 +35,26 @@
     application_args=[
         "--date", "{{ ds }}",
         "--env", "{{ macros.conveyor.env() }}",
-        "--partitions", "2000",
+        "--partitions", "1000",
+        "--iterations", "3000000000",
+    ],
+)
+
+
+ConveyorSparkSubmitOperatorV2(
+    dag=dag,
+    task_id="calculate_pi_inefficient",
+    num_executors=1,
+    driver_instance_type="mx.medium",
+    executor_instance_type="cx.xlarge",
+    instance_life_cycle="spot",  # Other options are `on-demand`, `driver-on-demand-executors-spot`
+    aws_role=role,
+    spark_main_version=3,
+    application="local:///opt/spark/work-dir/src/pi_spark/app.py",
+    application_args=[
+        "--date", "{{ ds }}",
+        "--env", "{{ macros.conveyor.env() }}",
+        "--partitions", "3",
+        "--iterations", "3000000000",
     ],
 )
diff --git a/basic/pi_spark/dev-requirements.in b/basic/pi_spark/dev-requirements.in
index 39073ac..d4f6524 100644
--- a/basic/pi_spark/dev-requirements.in
+++ b/basic/pi_spark/dev-requirements.in
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 -c requirements.txt
-pyspark==3.5.1
+pyspark==3.5.6
 pandas==1.5.2
 pytest>=6.0
 pytest-cov
diff --git a/basic/pi_spark/dev-requirements.txt b/basic/pi_spark/dev-requirements.txt
index e140221..3d91581 100644
--- a/basic/pi_spark/dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/basic/pi_spark/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ black==22.12.0
 click==8.1.3
     # via black
 coverage[toml]==7.0.5
-    # via
-    #   coverage
-    #   pytest-cov
+    # via pytest-cov
+exceptiongroup==1.3.1
+    # via pytest
 flake8==6.0.0
     # via -r dev-requirements.in
 iniconfig==2.0.0
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ pycodestyle==2.10.0
     # via flake8
 pyflakes==3.0.1
     # via flake8
-pyspark==3.5.1
+pyspark==3.5.6
     # via -r dev-requirements.in
 pytest==7.2.1
     # via
@@ -48,3 +48,10 @@ pytz==2022.7.1
     # via pandas
 six==1.16.0
     # via python-dateutil
+tomli==2.3.0
+    # via
+    #   black
+    #   coverage
+    #   pytest
+typing-extensions==4.15.0
+    # via exceptiongroup
diff --git a/basic/pi_spark/ide.yaml b/basic/pi_spark/ide.yaml
index 5239c94..ac38092 100644
--- a/basic/pi_spark/ide.yaml
+++ b/basic/pi_spark/ide.yaml
@@ -3,21 +3,3 @@ buildSteps:
     cmd: |
       sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/man/man1
       sudo apt install make docker-compose openjdk-11-jre gcc libbz2-dev openssl libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libreadline-dev liblzma-dev libsqlite3-dev -y
-  - name: Install pyenv
-    cmd: |
-      curl https://pyenv.run | bash
-      
-      #Add to bashrc
-      echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.bashrc
-      echo 'command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
-      echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
-      
-      #Add to profile 
-      echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.profile
-      echo 'command -v pyenv >/dev/null || export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.profile
-      echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.profile
-  - name: Install python 3.9.17
-    cmd: |
-      . ~/.profile
-      pyenv install 3.9.17
-      pyenv global 3.9.17
diff --git a/basic/pi_spark/src/pi_spark/app.py b/basic/pi_spark/src/pi_spark/app.py
index f68c1ce..f1f252c 100644
--- a/basic/pi_spark/src/pi_spark/app.py
+++ b/basic/pi_spark/src/pi_spark/app.py
@@ -10,28 +10,52 @@
 
 from pi_spark.common.spark import ClosableSparkSession, transform, SparkLogger
 
-
 DataFrame.transform = transform
 
 
 def main():
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="pi_spark")
     parser.add_argument(
-        "-d", "--date", dest="date", help="date in format YYYY-mm-dd", required=True
+        "-d",
+        "--date",
+        dest="date",
+        help="date in format YYYY-mm-dd",
+        required=True,
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "-e",
+        "--env",
+        dest="env",
+        help="environment we are executing in",
+        required=True,
     )
     parser.add_argument(
-        "-e", "--env", dest="env", help="environment we are executing in", required=True
-    )    
+        "-p",
+        "--partitions",
+        dest="partitions",
+        help="number of partitions to calculate pi",
+        required=False,
+    )
     parser.add_argument(
-        "-p", "--partitions", dest="partitions", help="number of partitions to calculate pi", required=False
+        "-i",
+        "--iterations",
+        dest="iterations",
+        help="number of iterations per partition to calculate pi",
+        required=False,
     )
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
-    with ClosableSparkSession("pi_spark") as session:        
-        run(session, args.env, args.date, int(args.partitions))
+    with ClosableSparkSession("pi_spark") as session:
+        run(session, args.env, args.date, int(args.partitions), int(args.iterations))
 
 
-def run(spark: SparkSession, environment: str, date: str, partitions: int=2):
+def run(
+    spark: SparkSession,
+    environment: str,
+    date: str,
+    partitions: int = 1000,
+    iterations: int = 10000000000,
+):
     """Main ETL script definition.
 
     :return: None
@@ -39,18 +63,16 @@ def run(spark: SparkSession, environment: str, date: str, partitions: int=2):
     # execute ETL pipeline
     logger = SparkLogger(spark)
     logger.info(f"Executing job for {environment} on {date}")
-    n = 100000 * partitions
     logger.info(f"Partitions: {partitions}")
-    logger.info(f"n: {n}")
-    def f(_: int) -> float:
-        x = random() * 2 - 1
-        y = random() * 2 - 1
-        return 1 if x ** 2 + y ** 2 <= 1 else 0
+    logger.info(f"number of iterations/samples: {iterations}")
 
-    count = spark.sparkContext.parallelize(range(1, n + 1), partitions).map(f).reduce(add)
-    logger.info("Pi is roughly %f" % (4.0 * count / n))
+    def f(_: int) -> float:
+        x, y = random(), random()
+        return x * x + y * y < 1
 
+    count = spark.sparkContext.parallelize(range(0, iterations), partitions).filter(f).count()
+    logger.info("Pi is roughly %f" % (4.0 * count / iterations))
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()
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+    main()
diff --git a/basic/pi_spark/src/pi_spark/common/spark.py b/basic/pi_spark/src/pi_spark/common/spark.py
index 36ff55d..ea2c112 100644
--- a/basic/pi_spark/src/pi_spark/common/spark.py
+++ b/basic/pi_spark/src/pi_spark/common/spark.py
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ def __enter__(self):
         spark_builder.config("spark.sql.hive.metastorePartitionPruning", "false")
         spark_builder.config("spark.sql.hive.convertMetastoreParquet", "false")
 
-        
         # add other config params
         for key, val in self._spark_config.items():
             spark_builder.config(key, val)
diff --git a/basic/pi_spark/tests/test_app.py b/basic/pi_spark/tests/test_app.py
index ad57632..6eef572 100644
--- a/basic/pi_spark/tests/test_app.py
+++ b/basic/pi_spark/tests/test_app.py
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@
 
 def test_pi_demo_runs():
     date_string = "2020-01-01"    
-    result = run(spark, "dev", date_string, 2)
+    run(spark, "dev", date_string, 2, 10)
     
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