Delta Lake is an open-source framework under the Linux Foundation used to build Lakehouse architectures. A new project is Delta Sharing, which is an open protocol for secure real-time exchange of large datasets. Databricks provides production-grade implementations of the projects under delta-io, including Databricks Delta Sharing. Understanding the open-source foundation of the enterprise offering can […]
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An Omnichannel Member Services Success Story: Improving Member Satisfaction
For healthcare payers, performance bonuses and analyst recommendations are dependent on external scoring by government agencies, regulators, and other third-parties. When our large Midwestern payer client’s customer satisfaction scores began to decrease due to unsatisfactory first-call resolution, inaccurate data, lack of omnichannel capabilities, and inaccurate billing information, the organization realized it needed a plan to […]
PySpark – Coding Standards & Best Practices
Purpose: The primary objective for this document is to provide awareness and establish clear understanding of coding standards and best practices to adhere while developing PySpark components. Best Practices are any procedure that is accepted as being the most effective either by consensus or prescription. Practices can range from stylistic to in-depth design methodologies. In […]
Top 5 take-aways from Databricks Data – AI Summit 2022
The Data and AI Summit 2022 had enormous announcements for the Databricks Lakehouse platform. Among these, there were several exhilarating enhancements to Databricks Workflows, the fully managed orchestration service that is deeply integrated with the Databricks Lakehouse Platform and Delta Live tables too. With these new efficacies, Workflows enables data engineers, data scientists and analysts […]
Azure Databricks – Capacity Planning for optimum Spark Cluster
Overview: Today the terminology “Data Analytics” becomes a buzz across all industries & enterprises. Every organization strongly believes Data Analytics greatly helps to get insight & accelerate the business strategies in order to grow & lead in their fast and ever-changing markets. Azure Databricks: Azure Databricks is a data analytics platform optimized for the Microsoft […]
Deep Dive into Databricks Tempo for Time Series Analytics
Time-series data has typically been fit imperfectly into whatever database we were using at the time for other tasks. There are time series databases (TSDB) coming to market. TSDBs are optimized to store and retrieve associated pairs of times and values. TSDB’s architecture focuses on time-stamp data storage and the compressions, summarization and life-cycle management […]
Koalas are better than Pandas (on Spark)
I help companies build out, manage and hopefully get value from large data stores. Or at least, I try. In order to get value from these petabytes-scale datastores, I need the data scientists to be able to easily apply their statistical and domain knowledge. There’s one fundamental problem: large datasets are always distributed and data […]