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Databricks Lakeflow Connect for MySQL
In Databricks Lakeflow Connect for MySQL (currently in public preview), Databricks recommends limiting each ingestion pipeline to around 250 tables, with validated testing up to 1 TB of snapshot data.However, in real-world enterprise scenarios, custo...
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TLDR: Do not scale Lakeflow Connect for MySQL linearly by creating dozens of identical pipelines. Current guidance is ~250 tables per pipeline, with a hard limit of 1,000 flows / ~500 tables, and the MySQL connector has been tested at 100 tables with...
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Building a Real-Time Field Sales App on Databricks with Lakeflow, Lakebase, and Mosaic AI
I recently wrote about a field sales platform built on Databricks using Lakeflow, Lakebase, Unity Catalog, Mosaic AI, and Databricks Apps.The main idea is using Lakebase and Lakehouse Sync to support operational workflows and analytics in one Databri...
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Lakeflow Connect: Managed Ingestion Without the Pipeline Tax
I recently published a piece on Lakeflow Connect and wanted to share it here since this community is where the conversation actually happens.The post covers something most of us have lived through, the hidden cost of maintaining ingestion pipelines. ...
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What Happens When a Data Platform Starts Making Its Own Decisions?
Data platforms are getting smarter — but are we asking the right questions about what that means for data engineering?I wrote about how Databricks Predictive Optimization is shifting the role of data engineers from reactive maintenance to autonomous ...
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ADF vs Databricks Workflows — When to Use Which
A practical guide from 12 years of building Azure data platforms.If you've spent any time working on Azure data platforms, you've probably hit this question at some point — should I build this in Azure Data Factory or just do it in Databricks?I've be...
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Z-Ordering VS Liquid Clustering
Hi everyone,I recently published a technical blog on Z-Ordering vs Liquid Clustering in Delta Lake, covering the internals of both techniques in detail.Rather than focusing only on the syntax, the blog goes deeper into: The origin of Z-Ordering — tra...
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I Finally Get Why Everyone's Excited About Databricks AI/BI Dashboards
Honestly, I should have paid attention to this sooner.You know that feeling when you build a dashboard, you're proud of it, and then five minutes into the meeting someone says "can you just add one more thing?" And then another thing. And another. Un...
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Evaluating GenAI Applications the Right Way in Databricks Ecosystem
Hello Everyone! I've been spending a lot of time lately thinking about something that keeps coming up in almost every GenAI project I touch — how do you actually know if your model is working well? Not just in demos, but in production, day after day....
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Databricks Model Serving: The Complete Guide to Production ML at Scale
Hello Everyone, I have jotted down some of the points on getting started with model serving. What is it about?, How we used to do things earlier? And why to use model serving?This blog focused on the fundamentals of Databricks Model Serving and its r...
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Setting Up Databricks on GCP the Right Way
This post is more focused for Databricks Platform Admin setting up for GCP Cloud Platform https://medium.com/@mogaxer871/from-zero-to-governed-setting-up-databricks-on-gcp-the-right-way-341d4b5afac1
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My experience replacing a Postgres → Kafka → DMS → S3 pipeline with Lakeflow Connect
Sharing my hands-on experience with Lakeflow Connect for anyone evaluating it for database ingestion. I recently moved data from PostgreSQL on AWS RDS into Databricks, and it replaced a painful legacy pipeline. Keeping this simple and practical.What ...
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Great article!
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The Hardest Part of Our SAP Migration Wasn't the Data. It Was Timing
Part 2 of my series on building an enterprise data platform on Databricks — this one's about Silver.Part 1 covered why we ran two ingestion paths in parallel (GoldenGate CDC + JDBC batch) and kept them as separate bronze tables. If you missed it:http...
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Learnings while troubleshooting Random Databricks Job Failures After Cloud Migration
One of my learning from a project.After migrating from an on-premises environment to the cloud, the data engineering team began noticing seemingly random failures in workflow-scheduled Databricks jobs.The failures appeared intermittent and often succ...
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When Lakehouse Federation "loses" your tables: the silent space-in-name trap
Spent some time on a Snowflake → Databricks federation issue that didn’t throw a single error -  which is exactly what made it tricky. Sharing it in case it saves someone a debugging session.The setupConnection to Snowflake: established. Foreign cata...
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From RAG Demo to Production on Databricks: 7 Things Teams Should Validate First
From RAG Demo to Production on Databricks: 7 Things Teams Should Validate FirstBy Naveen AyallaMany teams can build a RAG demo quickly.Upload documents, create embeddings, connect a model, ask a question, and show an answer.But production is differen...
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Thanks for reading. I’m especially interested in hearing from people who have worked on real RAG or GenAI workflows.Which one has been the biggest challenge for your team?1. Choosing the right source data2. Access control and governance3. Improving r...
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