KDKarthik Darbhaintech4nirvana.com·3d ago · 15 min readMetadata Intelligence: Making Your Catalog Work for You1. The Problem Every data platform has two estates: the data, and the description of the data. Teams invest heavily in the first and let the second decay. Open almost any mature Unity Catalog and run 00
MKMugesh Krishna {M K }inorganization-data-analysis-agent.hashnode.dev·Sep 26 · 8 min readDatabricks LTAP: Bringing PostgreSQL OLTP and Lakehouse Analytics TogetherIntroduction Modern applications continuously generate transactional data. PostgreSQL is commonly used as the operational database because applications need fast and reliable INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, a00
MIMyData Insightsinmydatainsights-blogs.hashnode.dev·Sep 25 · 11 min readFabric Lakehouse vs Databricks Lakehouse: A Practitioner’s Comparison The data science team stood up Azure Databricks two years ago for a forecasting model. Finance and operations run Power BI on a Fabric capacity bought last year. Both hold a table called dim_customer.00
JTJoseph Thomasinlogesysinsights.hashnode.dev·Sep 24 · 8 min readThe Platform Problem Is Solved. Yours Isn't.In June, the industry watched Databricks ship Genie Ontology, Agent Bricks, Lakebase and the Unity AI Gateway at a summit with thirty thousand people in the room. Microsoft is tightening Fabric around00
SPSudhanshu Prajapatiinblog.altimate.ai·Sep 11 · 21 min readBeyond the Databricks Cost Calculator: 6 Levers That Actually Cut Your Bill The official Databricks price calculator provides you information on the DBU rate times the hours you plan to run, the instance type for cloud providers, the costing of VMs (basically compute types) f00
MIMyData Insightsinmydatainsights-blogs.hashnode.dev·Sep 8 · 9 min readMedallion Architecture Explained: Bronze, Silver and Gold Layers The design review usually goes the same way. Somebody puts up a slide with three coloured rectangles, says "we'll follow the medallion architecture", and everyone nods. Six months later the Silver lay00
SASaurabh Arorainblog.altimate.ai·Sep 4 · 10 min readDatabricks Serverless vs Classic Compute: Which One Is Actually Cheaper?Whenever somebody mentions serverless, two things come to mind: it should be cheaper than normal resources and no infrastructure management, right? This is certainly what has been claimed both from Da00
NWNalaka Wanniarachchiinbidiaries.com·Sep 2 · 17 min readMachine Learning on Databricks for Data EngineersI built two models on Databricks from scratch — one predicts a used bike's price, and one predicts whether a loan will default. Both follow the same pattern: raw file → feature table → training → save30
MSManu Shuklainecorpit.hashnode.dev·Aug 23 · 13 min readDatabricks shipped agent-aware ABAC masking on 21 August 2026 with 3 gapsDatabricks shipped agent-aware ABAC masking on 21 August 2026 with 3 gaps Summary. Databricks put context attributes for Unity Catalog attribute-based access control into Beta on 21 August 2026. Two n00
SCSreekanth Cherpatiinunpack.hashnode.dev·Aug 22 · 9 min readDatabricks RBAC for Clinical and Biotech DataIntroduction: Life-sciences data platforms have changed substantially. A single Databricks environment can now support clinical development, real-world evidence, pharmacovigilance, biomarker research,00
