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This comprehensive guide outlines the end-to-end process of building production-grade ETL data pipelines using Databricks and Delta Lake. It implements the robust Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) for scalable data management. Techniques covered include Auto Loader for incremental streaming ingestion, MERGE INTO for upsert semantics, data cleansing, and advanced aggregation into analytics-ready layers. Ideal for establishing reliable data pipelines in a data lakehouse environment.

This guide outlines the complete MLOps workflow on Databricks. It covers feature engineering using Feature Store, tracking experiments with MLflow, managing model versions in the Model Registry, and deploying real-time inference endpoints via Mosaic AI Model Serving. Ideal for building robust, production-grade ML pipelines.

This guide provides a comprehensive framework for minimizing cloud expenditure on Databricks. It covers identifying cost drivers via system billing tables, implementing cluster policies, utilizing spot instances for batch processing, right-sizing SQL warehouses, and automating the shutdown of idle development clusters. Use it when managing cloud spending or optimizing data platform usage.

This skill provides a comprehensive guide on implementing robust data governance patterns within Delta Lake, leveraging Unity Catalog. It covers essential compliance topics such as data classification tagging, handling GDPR 'right-to-deletion' requests for PII, and establishing automated data retention policies. Use this when designing secure, compliant, and auditable data pipelines in a data lake environment.

A comprehensive guide for establishing robust, enterprise-grade access control within Databricks. Covers implementing Single Sign-On (SSO) via SCIM, leveraging Unity Catalog for fine-grained Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), defining cluster policies, and enforcing data governance measures like Row-Level Security (RLS) and column masking. Essential for large-scale, secure data platforms.

A comprehensive guide to setting up a minimal working example on Databricks. This skill covers creating a development cluster, uploading and executing notebooks (Python SDK), running tasks as jobs, and setting up a Serverless SQL Warehouse. It is ideal for new users or initializing a basic data engineering project.

A comprehensive runbook designed for on-call engineers to manage Databricks incidents, outages, and major job failures. It provides structured procedures for immediate triage, decision tree guidance (covering cluster failures, code errors, and data quality issues), and steps for evidence collection and postmortem documentation, ensuring rapid and systematic incident resolution.

A comprehensive guide detailing the setup process for Databricks CLI v2 and Python SDK. It covers essential steps for connecting to various Databricks workspaces, including configuring Personal Access Tokens (PAT), interactive OAuth U2M flows, and secure OAuth M2M service principals for CI/CD pipelines. Essential for developers integrating Databricks into their projects.

A comprehensive guide to setting up a fast, isolated local development loop for data engineering projects using Databricks Connect v2, Asset Bundles, and standard IDEs (like VS Code). This workflow allows developers to run PySpark code locally for debugging and unit testing, while managing resource deployment and ensuring consistency across development, staging, and production environments.

This comprehensive guide details strategies for migrating enterprise data platforms to Databricks. It provides PySpark examples for discovery, schema mapping (converting types from Hadoop, Snowflake, etc.), and executing robust data transfer methods like SYNC, DEEP CLONE, and CTAS. Use this when moving data from legacy sources like Hadoop, Snowflake, or Redshift to a modern Delta Lake environment.

This skill guides the setup and management of Databricks resources across development, staging, and production environments. It covers best practices for using isolated workspaces, managing environment-specific secrets, implementing Asset Bundles, and integrating with CI/CD pipelines to ensure consistent and reliable data deployments.

A comprehensive guide detailing optimization techniques for Databricks environments. It covers optimal cluster sizing for various workloads (ETL, ML, Streaming), advanced Spark configurations (AQE, memory management), and deep data optimization strategies for Delta Lake, including Z-Ordering and Liquid Clustering. It also provides methods for query plan analysis and join optimization.