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PiotrPustola
by Databricks Partner
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Orchestrating Irregular Databricks Jobs from external source Timestamps

Works for any event-driven workload: IoT alerts, e-commerce flash sales, financial market close processing.GoalIn this project, I needed to start Databricks jobs on an irregular basis, driven entirely by timestamps stored in PostgreSQL rather than by...

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SteveOstrowski
Databricks Employee
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@PiotrPustola -- The self-rescheduling orchestrator pattern is a really elegant solution for event-driven workloads that depend on externally managed timestamps. A few thoughts and additions that might help you and others who land on this article: AD...

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Prosenjeet33
by New Contributor III
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Building a Production‑Style SCD Type 2 Dimension on Delta Lake — Using Databricks Community Edition

If you’ve ever needed to maintain historical truth in a data warehouse, you’ve likely bumped into Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD)—specifically Type 2. In SCD2, we keep every version of a record as it changes over time, so analysis can answer questio...

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balajij8
by Esteemed Contributor II
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Databricks Metric Views - Moving Towards Business Semantics

Discussed the BI & Metrics Tax elimination using Databricks Metric Views here. Semantic Layer is a core component of the lakehouse with Metric Views. Modern stack is moving toward ai data experiences where organizations ask questions instead of build...

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Nidhi_Patni
by Databricks Partner
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How We Built Robust Data Governance at Scale

In today's data-driven world, trust is currency—and that trust starts with quality data governed by strong principles. For one of our client, where we're on a mission to build intelligent enterprises with AI, data isn't just an asset—it's a responsib...

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Garethcb
New Contributor II
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cannot seem to find Databricks Classification API? 

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Saurabh2406
by Contributor
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Legacy BI to an Agentic Lakehouse in 90 Days -Building Autonomous AI Analytics on Databricks 2026

Why Legacy BI Is Reaching Its Limits, And What Comes NextI have always believed that the original goal of digitalization was to make data available and then find better ways to analyze it. For the past two decades, Business Intelligence has followed ...

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wesleyfelipe
by Contributor
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Building PCI-Compliant Lakehouses: Governance Challenges Then and Modern Solutions

This article continues a technical deep dive into building large-scale Lakehouse architectures.The original platform processed billions of records across multiple markets and operated under PCI-DSS compliance requirements — a significant engineering ...

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balajij8
by Esteemed Contributor II
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Databricks Lake flow - Orchestration Layer is moving to where it belongs

Discussed the BI & Metrics Tax elimination using Databricks Metric Views here. Organizations also face an older more persistent tax — the Ingestion Tax.To ingest data from a source like Salesforce or SQL Server into your Lakehouse, you typically stit...

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Saurabh2406
by Contributor
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Resolved! Designing a Cost-Efficient Databricks Lakehouse, Performance Tuning and Optimization Best Practices

The Hidden Cost of Scaling the LakehouseOver the past few years, many organizations have successfully migrated to Databricks to modernize their data platforms. The Lakehouse architecture has enabled them to unify data engineering, analytics, and AI o...

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wesleyfelipe
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@Saurabh2406  this is such a rich article and has so many practical takeaways! Congrats!I faced similar challenges in one of my last projects, and I could spend some time building a nice dashboard (using the system.billing tables) that helped us trac...

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Coffee77
by Honored Contributor III
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🇪🇸 Por qué el DataFrame es el objeto de datos más importante en el procesamiento distribuido

En este video, creado como recordatorio para mi mala memoria a largo plazo, explico de forma sencilla: Qué es un DataFrame Cómo se distribuye en particiones Cómo se ejecuta en un cluster (driver y workers) Qué ocurre en un shuffle Relación entre...

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Coffee77
Honored Contributor III
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Recently, I am creating some "self-reminder" videos for helping my long-term poor human memory and maybe to help others. Understand internals of Dataframes, how partitions are related to jobs, stages, shuffles and tasks and, how transformations or a...

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BijuThottathil
by New Contributor III
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🚀 LDP Tax Pipeline — Spark Declarative Pipelines on macOS (Without Databricks)

LDP Tax Pipeline — Spark Declarative Pipelines on macOS (Without Databricks)Excited to share my latest hands-on implementation of a LakeFlow Declarative Pipeline (LDP) built locally using Apache Spark 4.1 Declarative Pipelines — running entirely on ...

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wesleyfelipe
by Contributor
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Scaling SCD on Databricks: Then vs Now

Between 2019 and 2021, we built a large-scale lakehouse on Databricks supporting multi-market payments processing (7B+ transactions/year).If ingestion was complex (covered in Part 1), the Silver layer was even more interesting.Implementing SCD Type 1...

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wesleyfelipe
by Contributor
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Is Zerobus the Future of Ingestion on Databricks? Lessons from a 7B+ Transaction Platform

Between 2019 and 2021, we built a multi-market payments data platform on Databricks that now processes more than 7 billion transactions per year across seven markets.Ingestion was by far the most operationally complex layer.To support MongoDB CDC str...

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