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The Gap in Agent Development
Databricks has made it straightforward to deploy AI agents—Model Serving endpoints, automatic MLflow tracing, Unity Catalog integration. But there's a gap between "deploye...
Building a Research Paper Curator for Knowledge Assistants
Document-heavy workflows such as research analysis, contract review, and support ticket processing, are a natural fit for AI agents. Building...
If this is the first time you’re hearing about Sinks in Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines (LDP), we highly recommend reading Introducing the SDP Sink API, which explores the recently launched Sinks API, ...
Introduction
TL;DR
ZeroBus Ingest is a serverless, Kafka-free ingestion service in Databricks that allows applications and IoT devices to stream data directly into Delta Lake with low latency and mini...
Beyond ADLS Limitations: Making File Arrival Triggers Work for Existing File Updates Using a Flag File MechanismThe Flag File MechanismThe Root Problem: Triggers Only Work on “Create”, Not “Modify” Ev...
Enterprise Account macro trends, strategy doc, account and project updates often end up in PDF format. Meanwhile, usage metrics and account-level signals—such as active users, DBU consumption, and use...
The Challenge: Sharing Data While Maintaining Privacy Boundaries
Imagine you're a global retail company with customer order data spanning multiple regions—North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. You ...
Introduction
Databricks Lakeflow enables data teams to design and operate data pipelines at scale, where speed and reliability directly influence the time to market for insights. As pipeline complexit...
Problem Statement
Technologies used: Ray, GPUs, Unity Catalog, MLflow, XGBoost
For many data scientists, eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) remains a popular algorithm for tackling regression and cla...