Blogs|Oct 11, 2021

Azure Databricks Series - Part 4
Databricks Clusters

This is a continuation of my series of posts on Databricks where we most recently reviewed the Workspace & Notebooks. Now let’s get more familiar with the concept of clusters. Clusters Databricks breaks clusters into multiple categories: All-Purpose Clusters Job Clusters Pools Spark clusters consist of a single driver node and multiple worker nodes. The…
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Apache Spark|Sep 2, 2021

Azure Databricks Series - Part 1
Intro to Azure Databricks

Many companies today have aging data architectures. As you look to modernize your traditional ETL pipeline, there is a tool you should keep in mind: Azure Databricks. During your move into Azure, there will probably be a place for Azure Databricks. In the past, general DTS/SSIS pipelines and SQL Server engines were sufficient but with…
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Blogs|Apr 24, 2018

An Overview of Azure Databricks

With the announcement of the general availability of Azure Databricks, in this post we’ll take this opportunity to get a brief feel to what Azure Databricks is and what it can do. What is Databricks? Databricks is a data solution that sits on top of Apache Spark to help accelerate a business’ data analytics side…
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