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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.

This comprehensive diagnostic bundle collects critical evidence from the Databricks environment, including environment setup, cluster state, job run history, and Delta table diagnostics. It generates a redacted, safe tar.gz file specifically designed for submitting detailed support tickets and efficiently troubleshooting complex data pipeline issues.

Use Declarative Automation Bundles (DABs) to manage and deploy Databricks assets, including jobs, DLT pipelines, and ML models, using an Infrastructure-as-Code approach. This skill allows defining resources and deployment targets (dev, staging, prod) in a single YAML file, enabling robust CI/CD practices and controlled promotion of changes across environments.

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 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.

This skill provides comprehensive observability for the Databricks platform. It enables users to monitor job run histories, track cluster utilization and associated costs (DBU), detect slow SQL queries, and audit access logs. Use it for setting up robust monitoring dashboards, ensuring pipeline health, and optimizing resource consumption across the entire data stack.

This comprehensive checklist guides the deployment of Databricks data pipelines and jobs to a production environment. It covers critical stages including pre-deployment security hardening (Service Principals, Unity Catalog), validating infrastructure (cluster types, autoscaling), ensuring code quality (unit/integration tests, Delta Lake best practices), executing controlled deployment, and performing post-deployment health checks and monitoring setup. Ideal for CI/CD pipelines and go-live procedures.