Databricks 101: An Introductory Guide on Navigating and Optimizing this Data Powerhouse
Databricks 101: An Introductory Guide on Navigating and Optimizing this Data Powerhouse
In an era where data reigns supreme, the tools and platforms that businesses utilize to harness and analyze their data can make or break their competitive edge. Among these, Databricks stands out as a powerhouse, yet navigating its complexities often feels like deciphering cryptic code. With businesses generating an average of 2.5 quintillion bytes of
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Noa Shavit
16 Jul 2024
Blog
Top 9 Lessons Learned about Databricks Jobs Serverless
Top 9 Lessons Learned about Databricks Jobs Serverless
To much fanfare, Databricks announced their wide release of serverless compute across all of their platforms at the Data + AI 2024 conference. It’s quite clear that Databricks’ vision is to own the compute layer to make life easier for end users, so they don’t have to worry about annoying cluster or versions details. We
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Jeffrey Chou
02 Jul 2024
Blog
Gradient Product Update— Discover, Monitor, and Automate Databricks Clusters
Gradient Product Update— Discover, Monitor, and Automate Databricks Clusters
With the Databricks Data+AI Summit 2024 just around the corner, we of course had to have a major product launch to go with it! We’re super excited to announce an entirely new user flow and features to the product, making it faster to get started and providing a more comprehensive management solution. At a high
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Jeffrey Chou
06 Jun 2024
Blog, Releases
May 2024 Release Notes
May 2024 Release Notes
April showers bring May product updates! Take a look at Sync’s latest product releases and features. 💐 The Sync team is heading to San Francisco for the Databricks Data+AI Summit 2024! We’ll be at Booth #44 talking all things Gradient with a few new surprise features in store. Want to get ahead of the crowd?
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Jeffrey Chou
29 May 2024
News, Releases
What is Databricks Unity Catalog (and Should I Be Using It)?
What is Databricks Unity Catalog (and Should I Be Using It)?
To help in your understanding, we wrote this blog post to address the question, “What is Databricks Unity Catalog?” and whether users should be using it (the answer is yes). We walk through a precise technical answer, and then dive into the details of the catalog itself, how to enable it and frequently asked questions.
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Jeffrey Chou
Blog
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
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Jeffrey Chou
18 May 2024
Case Study