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Sharing the two-column version I use when someone asks which compute to pick.Classic: the control plane requests VMs from your cloud provider and the cluster runs in your own account and network. You own instance types, autoscaling and networking, an...

Sharing the explanation that finally stopped the same question coming back every onboarding.The account is the organisation-level container, normally one per cloud provider, and it owns billing, account admins and identities. A workspace is a single ...

A follow-up to my Databricks architecture post. The next question I kept getting was "what actually is a lakehouse, and why not just use a warehouse?", so I drew that one too.The crisp answer: a data warehouse gives you ACID transactions, enforced sc...

I kept getting the same interview question, "explain the Databricks architecture", and most answers are a wall of text. So I drew it.The crisp answer: Databricks manages the control plane (web app, job scheduler, notebook metadata). Your compute runs...