January 2024 Release Notes
January 2024 Release Notes
Exciting things are happening at Sync as we move further into the new year! Ensuring that our users are equipped with the tools to fully manage the automation of their infrastructure is always top of mind. With the most recent iteration of Gradient, Sync users are able to take advantage of a toolkit that makes
Jeffrey Chou
31 Jan 2024
Releases
What is the Databricks Job API?
What is the Databricks Job API?
The Databricks Jobs API allows users to programmatically create, run, and delete Databricks Jobs via their REST API solution. This is an alternative to running Databricks jobs through their console UI system. For access to other Databricks platforms such as SQL warehouses, delta live tables, unity catalog, or others, users will have to implement other
Jeffrey Chou
29 Jan 2024
Blog
Introducing the Sync Databricks Workspace Health Check
Introducing the Sync Databricks Workspace Health Check
Introducing the Sync Databricks Workspace health check, a program that we’ve spearheaded to help Databricks users identify common mistakes in their Workspaces. Here at Sync, we’ve worked with a ton of companies and looked at their overall Databricks workspace usage. We’ve seen all sorts of usage from jobs, all-purpose compute, SQL warehouses, to Delta Live
Jeffrey Chou
24 Jan 2024
Blog
How a Disney Senior Data Engineer Obtained 80% Cost Savings using Gradient
How a Disney Senior Data Engineer Obtained 80% Cost Savings using Gradient
Sr. Data Engineer at Disney Streaming In the self-written blog post below, a Sr. Data Engineer chronicles his experience with the Spark Gradient for EMR. In the blog post we helped accelerate a job from 90 to 24 minutes, which was amazing to see! The first job I put into the gradient went from processing
Jeffrey Chou
15 Jan 2024
Case Study
Everything You Need To Know About Azure Databricks Pricing 2024
Everything You Need To Know About Azure Databricks Pricing 2024
When trying to determine Databricks pricing, one of the most important aspects to consider is the cost of your cloud provider. This means one of three companies: Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, or Google Cloud. All three cloud service providers are extremely popular, and there’s no finite answer to which is best. Most companies choose one
Jeffrey Chou
05 Dec 2023
Blog
Gradient New Product Update Q4 2023
Gradient New Product Update Q4 2023
Today we are excited to announce our next major product update for Gradient to help companies optimize their Databricks Jobs clusters. This update isn’t just a simple UI upgrade… We upgraded everything from the inside out! Without burying the lead, here’s a screenshot of the new project page for Gradient above. Back in the last
Jeffrey Chou
27 Nov 2023
Blog, News