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Lessons from a Power BI to Databricks migration: metric views first, then Genie
We recently moved a 20-report Power BI estate to Databricks in 6 weeks, against a 23-week plan for a traditional rewrite. Sharing what worked and what didn't, in case it helps others planning the same move.What made the differenceMetric views before ...
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Thanks for sharing. Hard-coded shifts were our first approach too, and they got fragile quickly: every calendar change meant touching several measures.What worked better for us was moving the fiscal logic into data instead of expressions:A fiscal cal...
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Why Your Genie Space Gives Wrong Answers: A Debugging Playbook
Every team that builds a Databricks Genie space goes through the same moment. The demo went well, the first few questions came back clean, and then a stakeholder asks something slightly different and the number is wrong. Not obviously wrong, which wo...
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How New Developers Learn Databricks Genie: A Practical Learning Path
If you are new to the Databricks ecosystem, you have probably heard the name Genie in a demo, a keynote, or a hallway conversation. The pitch is simple and a little magical: ask a question about your data in plain English, and get back a table, a cha...
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Built a live Helsinki tram tracker on Databricks with Lakeflow, Lakebase, Genie and Apps
Hi everyone! I built a near-real-time app that follows every tram and metro train in Helsinki using only Databricks: no Kafka, no extra servers, and the whole thing deploys from one repository.What the app doesA live map of every tram and metro train...
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Thanks for sharing this insightful app
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I Built an AI-Powered Data Pipeline Generator for Databricks — Here Is What Happened
Building robust Medallion architectures takes time. Writing the same boilerplate for Auto Loader, streaming tables, and SCD Type 2 merges across different projects is a bottleneck.So, I ran an experiment: What happens if you let AI write your Spark D...
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excellent work
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Nexa: Genie is a Minute Away
Building an Explainable Semantic Intelligence Platform on the Databricks LakehouseWe are building Nexa, a semantic intelligence platform for Databricks that turns a raw Lakehouse into a continuously maintained, explainable system that can compile nat...
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Look at Visuals
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Building Custom Agents on Databricks:LangGraph, Atlan-Grounded Routing, and Per-Run Cost with MLflow
The problem: rethinking routing in multi-agent systems on DatabricksDatabricks native supervisor agent pattern is a solid default for orchestrating multiple Genie spaces and tools but it comes with a routing constraint worth examining. The superviso...
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Ledgerly: A Genie-Powered Business Health Copilot for Small Businesses
Built for the Databricks Community Genie-Powered App Challenge 2026 — Track A: Real-World Problem Solver THE PROBLEM THAT DOESN'T SHOW UP ON A DASHBOARD Most small businesses don't fail because they run out of customers. They fail because they discov...
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Data Engineering 3.0 - From Trusted Data Products to Context Layers
Data Engineering 1.0 was largely about integrating, moving, consolidating massive data to support enterprise decisions. Enterprises built ETL pipelines, data warehouses, data lakes and orchestration platforms to bring data together reliably. Data Eng...
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A Conversational Trade Promotion Optimization App with Genie at the Core
1. The problem and the opportunityRetailers run hundreds of trade promotions every month across many stores and SKUs. Discounts, buy one get one offers, and bundle deals are expensive levers, and most teams still evaluate them in silos. A category ma...
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Intersting!
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🧪 MAD DATA LAB: Wonderful. Something Is Wrong.
Hi, I’m Ángel. I build data systems, break them more often than I would like to admit, and write about what I learn at Angelic Articles (my new own website for articles, previously on Medium).What I enjoy most is usually not getting the answer. It is...
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Gridiron Genie: an NFL matchup room powered by Databricks Genie Agent
Gridiron Genie: an NFL matchup room powered by Databricks Genie AgentTrack B (Creative Thinking) entry for the Genie-Powered App Challenge, built and deployed on Databricks Free Edition. The Week 1 slate: pick a matchup room.The premiseYou're an NFL...
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This looks great! Great architecture stack with some up-and-coming new AI features from Databricks. I appreciated how you called out investing first in the data layer and enforcing standards there as the foundation. Very cool!
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The Exfiltration: a detective game where the only witness is a Genie agent
Databricks Community Genie-Powered App Challenge · Track B, Creative ThinkingA dump of the customer database has appeared on a public forum. Four hundred people work at this company and any of them could have taken it. The access logs know what happe...
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Five ways to build a pipeline in Lakeflow Designer — and what each one is good for
Lakeflow Designer went generally available recently, and I spent some time building the same class of pipeline five different ways to see where each approach actually fits. Sharing the high-level findings here; the full walkthrough with screenshots i...
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Prove It: the query is the lesson — a Genie-powered data-literacy game
Databricks Community Genie-Powered App Challenge. Track B: Creative Thinking.Most Genie apps answer questions. This one refuses to. You bring it a claim — "boys are better at maths", "China is the world's biggest polluter" — and Genie writes the SQL ...
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