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
5 Lessons learned from testing Databricks SQL Serverless + DBT
5 Lessons learned from testing Databricks SQL Serverless + DBT
Databricks’ SQL warehouse products are a compelling offering for companies looking to streamline their production SQL queries. However, as usage scales up, the cost and performance of these systems become crucial to analyze. In this blog we take a technical deep dive into the cost and performance of their serverless SQL warehouse product by utilizing
Jeffrey Chou
17 Oct 2023
Blog, Case Study
Sync is now SOC2 Type I Compliant!
Sync is now SOC2 Type I Compliant!
Introduction In the world of Data, iron clad security is table stakes when considering 3rd party vendors to work with. Here at Sync, we take our customer’s security seriously and want to assure that their sensitive information is handled with utmost care. This is why we are thrilled to announce that Sync has successfully achieved
Jeffrey Chou
02 Oct 2023
News