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Lakebase can scale up more, and Apps are now getting horizontal scaling. Seems like #databricks is the best place to run your app now, any app.
https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-cli-v-1-0-0-ai-tools-last-updated-25th-may-767ef39abe8a
Databricks continues to enhance data governance and observability with the introduction of Column Popularity in Unity Catalog's Catalog Explorer. This new capability provides data teams with visibility into which columns are queried most frequently a...
Azure Databricks now allows organisations to configure a custom URL at the account level, providing a unified and branded access point for all users.Instead of navigating multiple workspace-specific URLs, users can log in once using a single custom U...
The article on Medium includes a diagram that involves Azure Application Gateway, but Databricks' own documentation seems to suggest a quite different setup:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/admin/account-settings/custom-urlAlso, it'...
If you run dozens of scheduled jobs on Databricks, you already know the two native options for catching failures — email/Teams alerts and the Monitoring dashboard — both let you down at scale. You forget to wire up alerts on new jobs, and the dashboa...
Databricks published a list of its own runtimes as Docker images, but what is amazing is that it is not only the standard runtime but also some versions of runtimes, including my two favorites, minimal and version-matching serverless environment, and...
Now, using CLI, it is easy to generate databricks skills for your favorite agent. Just hit databricks aitools install #databricks
https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-cli-v-1-0-0-ai-tools-last-updated-25th-may-767ef39abe8a
Databricks CLI and DABs are generally available, and the first version has been released! #databrickshttps://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-cli-v-1-0-0-ai-tools-last-updated-25th-may-767ef39abe8a
In this hands-on tutorial, you’ll learn how to seamlessly ingest Salesforce data into Databricks using Lakeflow Connect and implement real-world data engineering patterns for scalable analytics. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NxuThfalRRE?si=k1JiJ...
Scheduling dashboard updates ensures that your dashboards display up-to-date information and improves performance for end users. Subscriptions keep stakeholders informed by sending dashboard snapshots to email, Slack, or Microsoft Teams. This page ex...
Stop copy-pasting job parameters between your DABS. Especially ones for the catalog and schema. Just read about mutators! #databricks
https://databrickster.medium.com/global-job-parameters-thanks-to-dabs-mutators-2ad0d94bda1c
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I watched Databricks CEO, Ali Ghodsi’s interview on Mad Money, with Jim Cramer, and was inspired by a point that aligns closely with what we hear from clients every day: “AI doesn’t have an intelligence problem. It has a context problem.”That is exac...
In modern data platforms, real value comes not only from generating insights but also from automating them. Businesses today need reports, KPIs, anomaly detection, and operational intelligence to run continuously without manual intervention.This is w...
About three years ago, when Generative AI was still in its early stages, I worked on a commercial application for insurance underwriting. It was a Life Insurance Underwriting assistant built on an early version of GPT-4 (1106).The design was simple. ...
In one of the recent issue of The Batch, Andrew Ng argues that voice UIs will become as ubiquitous as the mouse and touchscreen - and highlights Vocal Bridge, an agentic voice platform, as an example of the infrastructure making this possible. To dem...