Beginner | Create Agent on Databricks data

[SinghGS]

Greetings all,

I'm currently exploring Databricks and have just completed the fundamentals. I'm really interested in learning more about custom views, data engineering, and especially how to build agents on top of Databricks data.

As a beginner, I'm a bit unsure about the best learning path to follow to achieve these goals. I’d really appreciate any advice or pointers you could share to help guide me in the right direction.

Thanks
GS

[Advika]

Hello @SinghGS!

• For Data Engineering, check out this post. It covers key concepts and recommends courses to deepen your understanding.
• For Custom Views, explore the documentation here: https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/views/
  You can also review the tutorial Data Management and Governance with Unity Catalog, which focuses on secure data governance using views and materialized views.
• To learn how to build AI Agents, start by understanding GenAI app concepts, and consider the course Generative AI Engineering with Databricks to learn more about RAG workflows and multi-stage reasoning using LLMs.
  Then build your first agent using the Get started with AI agents [quickstart].
  Also, explore the tutorial Build, evaluate, and deploy a retrieval agent to learn how AI agents retrieve data, run workflows, and reason over your datasets.
  
  

[WiliamRosa]

There is currently a beta feature in Databricks for building AI agents using Agent Bricks. This feature enables a no-code approach to create and optimize domain-specific AI agent systems tailored to common use cases. For more details, see the Databricks documentation on Agent Bricks:
https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/generative‑ai/agent‑bricks/

[BS_THE_ANALYST]

@WiliamRosa I think you should mention that AgentBricks does have some requirements:
https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/generative-ai/agent-bricks/ 

@SinghGS , @Advika has provided a bunch of amazing articles in there. I'll be bookmarking a few 😂.

Have you considered looking into the Gen-AI databricks cert? https://www.databricks.com/learn/certification/genai-engineer-associate . It'll provide the full life-cycle for things like agents and the appropriate methods for governance when deploying them 😀.

@SinghGS I'd highly recommend checking out the Dynamic Views! Totally blew my mind on what they can achieve and how easy they are to setup.

All the best,
BS