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Databricks
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TechFabric engineer named a winner in Databricks' Genie-Powered App Challenge
Prove It, by TechFabric engineer Ivan Vydrin, won in the Creativity & Originality track of Databricks' global Genie-Powered App Challenge, judged by Databricks.
TechFabricReadEmbedded analytics on Databricks, part 1
One ticket, one platform, and the cheapest first step. Moving a B2B product's client reporting onto Databricks, starting with Lakehouse Federation.
Andrey TaranReadFabric or Databricks is the wrong question on Azure
Microsoft and Databricks shipped the interop this year. For teams already on Azure the question is which platform holds the tables and which one reads them.
Sushruth AeluguriReadThe lock-in argument for leaving Snowflake is over
Snowflake and Databricks now read and write each other's Iceberg tables. If a vendor is still selling you a migration on lock-in, they are selling you 2023.
Sushruth AeluguriReadExport to Data Lake stops on 30 November
Export to Data Lake stops permanently on 30 November 2026. Microsoft names two replacements for Dynamics 365 teams. There is a third answer.
Sushruth AeluguriReadThe pipeline was fine. The data was three days old.
Every job green, nothing failing, and the numbers quietly wrong because a source stopped sending. Freshness, volume and schema checks in Unity Catalog.
Sushruth AeluguriReadPaying frontier prices to rename a variable
Smart routing in Unity AI Gateway labels a coding task before picking a model. The cost headline is fine. The traces are the part worth reading.
Preetham ReddyReadNobody wanted to run the migration on a Friday
Staging has ten thousand rows, production has forty million, and every migration is a guess. What Lakebase branching does to a team's calendar.
Raja VemuriReadUnity Catalog before the first pipeline
Lakehouse pilots skip grants and then cannot be handed to security. The Lakehouse Launchpad puts Unity Catalog first, with TechFabric Airlift underneath.
Sushruth AeluguriReadThe cost dashboard said the workspace was fine
A Databricks cost dashboard shows spend. A two-week Health Check finds the spend that bought nothing, from all-purpose clusters to orphaned schedules.
Ihor SeleznovReadFour thousand objects and nobody would name the exclusions
Warehouse migrations slip because the exclusions were never written down. The Migration Readiness Sprint inventories the estate before anyone picks a date.
Preetham ReddyReadFinance said ninety days. Operations said open account.
Genie fails when two teams mean different things by the same word. Genie Accuracy hardens the semantic layer. TechFabric Experiments keeps the suite running.
Andrew RipleyReadNobody could tell whether the agent was any good
A team shipped an agent in nine days and argued for two months about whether its answers were right. Write down what a good answer is first.
Preetham ReddyReadUsing PyTest for Data Quality Checks Directly within Databricks
Writing PyTest data quality checks inside Databricks notebooks. Bronze-to-silver validation, edge cases, fixtures and error handling, with examples.
Ihor SeleznovReadHow QA Engineers Can Use Databricks Repos for Better Test Automation Workflows
Moving QA off ad-hoc notebooks and onto version-controlled test automation with Databricks Repos. Repo structure, modular tests, and how a team works in one.
Ihor SeleznovReadGovernance You Can Actually Ship
AI governance fails when it lives in documents instead of infrastructure. Compliance comes from systems that enforce the rules while the model is running.
TechFabricReadDASF - Databricks AI Security Framework
DASF is the Databricks AI Security Framework, a map of 62 AI risks and their controls. What it covers, and how to put those controls in the runtime.
Preetham ReddyReadBeyond basic data catalogs: how Unity Catalog solves real enterprise governance challenges
Unity Catalog is the permission boundary we refuse to route around. A Health Check finds coverage that stops halfway, and agents inherit a person's grants.
Preetham ReddyReadMigrating from Legacy Data Warehouses to Databricks Data & AI Platform
Warehouse migrations slip on scope, not conversion. Two weeks on TechFabric Airlift inventories the estate, agrees exclusions and hands you a wave plan.
Preetham ReddyReadFrom Data Warehouses to Data Intelligence: Why Your Next Platform Choice Will Define the Next Decade
Transform your data strategy: From warehouses to AI-powered intelligence platforms. Discover why your platform choice defines the next decade.
Preetham ReddyReadDriving Real-World Value with Intelligent Business Intelligence, BI in the era of AI
Databricks AI/BI in practice. Conversational analytics, semantic understanding, and dashboards people actually open.
Preetham ReddyReadTaking The Mystery Out Of Microsoft Azure And What It Can Do For Your Business
What Microsoft Azure actually does for a business, in plain terms. Growth, cost and efficiency, without the platform vocabulary.
TechFabricReadHow We Created A Multi-Tenant, Multi-Cloud, & Multi-Model AI Platform with Temporal, Fiber Copilot
How we built Fiber Copilot, a multi-tenant, multi-cloud and multi-model AI Ops platform for standing up chatbots and copilots quickly.
Preetham ReddyReadWhat Every CTO Needs To Know About Databricks
A CTO's guide to Databricks and what it does with big data. Learn essential strategies to maximize your data potential and drive innovation.
John BellaudReadHiring Databricks Specialists: 12 Expert Insights You Need to Get it Right
Twelve things to get right when hiring Databricks specialists in-house, from people who have built the teams and know what they screen for.
John BellaudRead