How Abnormal Reduced Databricks Costs by 38% with Gradient
How Abnormal Reduced Databricks Costs by 38% with Gradient
Who is Abnormal? Abnormal is a hypergrowth company in the email security space that helps companies worldwide prevent email attacks while automating security operations. They rely on Databricks extensively to help process terabytes of data across thousands of jobs daily, translating to an enormous amount of daily Databricks usage. From ETL jobs, streaming, SQL, to
Jeffrey Chou
18 May 2024
Case Study
What is Declarative Computing?
What is Declarative Computing?
The problem today In the world of cloud computing today, there remains an echo of the past that comes from the old server days that still haunts us today – manual compute resource selection. At a very high level, there are are always 2 pieces of information you need to provide to a compute cluster
Jeffrey Chou
06 May 2024
News
April 2024 Release Notes
April 2024 Release Notes
Our April releases are here! Take a look at Sync’s latest product updates and features. Sync’s Databricks Workspace health check is now self-serve and available as a notebook that you simply download and run on your own. With the notebook, you’ll be able to answer questions such as: ⚙️ What is the distribution of job
McKinley Culbert
29 Apr 2024
News, Releases
Sync’s Health Check for Databricks Workspaces
Sync’s Health Check for Databricks Workspaces
Whether you’re a data engineer, a manager of a data team, or an executive overseeing a data platform, your focus might be on growth, and to continue to build and innovate. However, this may come at the expense of ballooning costs that are getting harder and harder to get under control. This ultimately leads to
Kartik Nagappa
22 Apr 2024
News
Why are your Databricks jobs performances changing over time?
Why are your Databricks jobs performances changing over time?
For those running and tracking their production Databricks jobs, many may often see “random” fluctuations in runtime or slowly changing performance over days and weeks. Immediately, people may often wonder: To help give engineers and managers more visibility into how their production jobs are performing over time, we just launched a new visualization feature in
Jeffrey Chou
11 Apr 2024
Blog, Releases
March 2024 Release Notes
March 2024 Release Notes
Our team has been hard at work to deliver industry-leading features to support users in achieving optimal performance within the Databricks ecosystem. Take a look at our most recent releases below. Worker Instance Recommendations Introducing Worker Instance Recommendations directly from the Sync UI. With this feature, you are able to tap into optimal cluster configuration
McKinley Culbert
26 Mar 2024
News