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
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
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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
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Jeffrey Chou
29 Apr 2024
News, Releases