Advancing Spark – Bloom Filter Indexes in Databricks Delta

Advancing Spark – Bloom Filter Indexes in Databricks Delta

Data Lakes are notoriously bad at single record lookups, the kind of query where you are looking for a specific ID in amongst millions of... Details
Configuring Azure Databricks Spot VM Clusters

Configuring Azure Databricks Spot VM Clusters

Azure Spot VMs are incredibly cheap CPUs that come with the risk of being evicted if enough demand for full-price CPUs occurs in the region.... Details
Azure Databricks News – March 2021

Azure Databricks News – March 2021

With all the things coming out in Azure Databricks recently,  Advancing Analytics is starting a monthly roundup of the platform updates and any runtime additions.... Details
Advancing Spark – Getting started with Repos for Databricks

Advancing Spark – Getting started with Repos for Databricks

For a long time, we've all had to make do with several workarounds for integrating Databricks into our application lifecycle -- syncing single notebooks, or... Details
Tech Talk Series Part One: Engagement Activity Delta Lake

Tech Talk Series Part One: Engagement Activity Delta Lake

Databricks hosted this tech talk where, in part one, where they talk about how they built the engagement activity Delta Lake to support Einstein Analytics... Details
Growing the Delta Lake Ecosystem

Growing the Delta Lake Ecosystem

Databricks hosted this fun Delta Lake AMA session where we discuss with QP Hou, Christian Williams, and Alexander Kushnir from Scribd on growing the Delta... Details
How Education Rewrote the Book on Virtual Learning

How Education Rewrote the Book on Virtual Learning

From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, educational institutions had to quickly make the shift to teaching fully online. In this episode, Kate Carruthers, Chief... Details
Data Collab Lab | CI/CD with Databricks

Data Collab Lab | CI/CD with Databricks

In this episode of Data Collab Lab hosted by Lee Blackwell and Franco Patano  learn how to build Continuous Improvement and Continuous Delivery pipelines for... Details
What, How and when to Delta Lake

What, How and when to Delta Lake

This talk is brought to you by the Istanbul Spark Meetup. Abstract: This live coding session is a gentle introduction to the latest and greatest... Details
What is Delta Lake?

What is Delta Lake?

Delta Lake is an open format storage layer that delivers reliability, security and performance on your data lake — for both streaming and batch operations.... Details