https://community.databricks.com/t5/community-articles/ldp-tax-pipeline-spark-declarative-pipelines-on-macos-without/m-p/148986#M1038 <H2><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":rocket:">🚀</span> LDP Tax Pipeline — Spark Declarative Pipelines on macOS (Without Databricks)</H2><P>Excited to share my latest hands-on implementation of a <STRONG>LakeFlow Declarative Pipeline (LDP)</STRONG> built locally using <STRONG><SPAN class=""><SPAN class="">Apache Spark</SPAN></SPAN> 4.1 Declarative Pipelines</STRONG> — running entirely on <STRONG>macOS</STRONG>, orchestrated with a simple <STRONG>cron job</STRONG>, and following a production-style <STRONG>Medallion Architecture</STRONG>.</P><H3><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":small_blue_diamond:">🔹</span> What this pipeline demonstrates:</H3><UL><LI><P><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":inbox_tray:">📥</span> Raw tax data ingestion from AWS S3</P></LI><LI><P><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":3rd_place_medal:">🥉</span> Bronze layer for raw structured ingestion</P></LI><LI><P><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":2nd_place_medal:">🥈</span> Silver layer for cleansing &amp; enrichment</P></LI><LI><P><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":1st_place_medal:">🥇</span> Gold layer for aggregations &amp; analytics</P></LI><LI><P><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":floppy_disk:">💾</span> Persistence to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2</P></LI><LI><P><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":stopwatch:">⏱</span>️ Fully scheduled using cron (no external orchestrator)</P></LI><LI><P><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":prohibited:">🚫</span> No Databricks runtime — pure Spark 4.1 SDP</P></LI></UL><P>Check this medium article.&nbsp;<A href="https://medium.com/@bijumathewt/lakeflow-declarative-tax-pipeline-using-apache-spark-4-1-64c965914c3b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://medium.com/@bijumathewt/lakeflow-declarative-tax-pipeline-using-apache-spark-4-1-64c965914c3b</A></P> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:29:12 GMT BijuThottathil 2026-02-22T17:29:12Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/community-articles/ldp-tax-pipeline-spark-declarative-pipelines-on-macos-without/m-p/148986#M1038 <H2><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":rocket:">🚀</span> LDP Tax Pipeline — Spark Declarative Pipelines on macOS (Without Databricks)</H2><P>Excited to share my latest hands-on implementation of a <STRONG>LakeFlow Declarative Pipeline (LDP)</STRONG> built locally using <STRONG><SPAN class=""><SPAN class="">Apache Spark</SPAN></SPAN> 4.1 Declarative Pipelines</STRONG> — running entirely on <STRONG>macOS</STRONG>, orchestrated with a simple <STRONG>cron job</STRONG>, and following a production-style <STRONG>Medallion Architecture</STRONG>.</P><H3><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":small_blue_diamond:">🔹</span> What this pipeline demonstrates:</H3><UL><LI><P><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":inbox_tray:">📥</span> Raw tax data ingestion from AWS S3</P></LI><LI><P><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":3rd_place_medal:">🥉</span> Bronze layer for raw structured ingestion</P></LI><LI><P><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":2nd_place_medal:">🥈</span> Silver layer for cleansing &amp; enrichment</P></LI><LI><P><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":1st_place_medal:">🥇</span> Gold layer for aggregations &amp; analytics</P></LI><LI><P><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":floppy_disk:">💾</span> Persistence to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2</P></LI><LI><P><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":stopwatch:">⏱</span>️ Fully scheduled using cron (no external orchestrator)</P></LI><LI><P><span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":prohibited:">🚫</span> No Databricks runtime — pure Spark 4.1 SDP</P></LI></UL><P>Check this medium article.&nbsp;<A href="https://medium.com/@bijumathewt/lakeflow-declarative-tax-pipeline-using-apache-spark-4-1-64c965914c3b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://medium.com/@bijumathewt/lakeflow-declarative-tax-pipeline-using-apache-spark-4-1-64c965914c3b</A></P> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:29:12 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/community-articles/ldp-tax-pipeline-spark-declarative-pipelines-on-macos-without/m-p/148986#M1038 BijuThottathil 2026-02-22T17:29:12Z