Databricks has just released Dolly, a LLM for Databricks customers. Check it out! https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/03/24/hello-dolly-democratizing-magic-chatgpt-open-models.html ... View more

Hi Everyone, update to the community. We will be having another Databricks Calgary Usergroup on Feb 23, 2023. Currently planned from 4-6:30pm at the Unity3D offices. Registration links and details will be posted soon, but please mark you calendars and reach out to me if you'd be interested in presenting! ... View more

Hi Community members! I wanted to highlight a recent Databricks blog post on Cybersecurity. The reason I think it's worth sharing here is a lot of the concepts have broad applicability beyond a Security Use case (although the security use case IS pretty interesting). Specifically I liked the examples that showed: Moving Notebook matching logic to a DLT pipeline (to support events as a stream) Creating alerting logic based on events Generating functions to be used as nodes in a DLT graph Integrating both Slack (for alerting) as well as Azure Event Hubs to publish alerts so different consumer groups in the org can subscribe to and read Check out the blog post and let us know what you think! ... View more

Introductions! Feel free to introduce yourself when you join this group. I'll start, I'm Nick, I've been working at Databricks for a little over 2.5 years. I'm based out of Calgary and was originally born in Edmonton. I joined Databricks because I was really excited about the technology they've developed, the potential impact it could have in the future, and the team was some of the best and brightest folks I've ever met. Great to virtual meet all of you, and hopefully we can connect up at the next in person Databricks User Group! ... View more

Welcome to the Databricks Calgary User Group! This virtual space is an extension of the physical Calgary Databricks User Group. We meet quarterly in person, and this space allows us to continue the conversation and ask questions/share ideas. Feel free to ask questions or share thoughts, this space is moderated by the local Calgary Databricks team. Also please remember that everyone is at a different stage/skill level in their journey, all questions are welcome and our members commit to treating each other with respect. We encourage everyone who joins to please introduce yourself if you feel comfortable. Thank you! ... View more