A Data Blog
Reading Time: 4 minutes Amid the plethora of announcements coming out of the DATA + AI Summit a few weeks back, there was a distinct message from Databricks on the importance of data sharing. During the keynote Matei Zaharia referenced a Gartner report quoting...
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the first post of this series, I set out the foundation of our secure Data Lakehouse. It makes sense to continue with the heart of the platform; the compute engine Azure Databricks. Azure Databricks Azure Databricks is an analytics...
Reading Time: 3 minutes Reference architectures are great! You’ve got all of the key components in there, nice and clear. Colourful lines showing how data moves through each stage, product, or service. Great for a slide deck or a proposal to get rid of...
Reading Time: < 1 minute There was no break time browsing list last week, you may have noticed. As we all struggle with coronavirus restrictions, my kids’ nursery was closed for two weeks, adding a little more pressure to our family. With two toddlers to...
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m continuing the theme of #Hacktoberfest this week with another link on contributing to open source down the bottom. Beyond that I’ve been working on some Azure Databricks Delta lake basics to help with explaining it to others. Thanks to...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Last week we had SQLBits running, virtually, from Tuesday through Saturday. I managed to catch a few good sessions live and supported the event by moderating Tomaz Kastrun‘s precon on the Wednesday. I was originally scheduled to speak at SQLBits...
Reading Time: < 1 minute With a well-timed (but much needed) holiday last week I’m just catching up with all the exciting announcements and news coming out of Microsoft’s Ignite conference. I’ve found a few good videos to quickly summarise what’s new and what I’ll...
Reading Time: 2 minutes This past week I’ve been digging about in Azure Databricks and Delta lake while doing some last minute study for Microsoft’s DP-200 exam which I sat, and passed on Monday. 🙌 Yay! It feels good to have the time to...
