Category: Data & AI
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As I was helping one of my customers implement structured CI/CD and MLOps processes on Databricks, I decided to compile a practical checklist to guide others on similar journeys. While this topic could easily span books and multi-day workshops, my goal here is to keep it simple and actionable. This checklist outlines best practices across…
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As .NET powers five million developers worldwide, this post shows how this amazing developer ecosystem can leverage the leading Data & AI platform to build data-driven applications. In this previous post, we explored how to integrate enterprise apps with Databricks using REST APIs and OAuth from Python and Power Apps perspectives. Now, we’re turning the…
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In a previous post, we explored options for accessing data in Databricks from external apps and systems. In this post, we’ll dive into another integration method: using Databricks SQL REST APIs with Databricks OAuth for authorization. We’ll demonstrate how to connect to Databricks with single sign-on (SSO) in both Power Apps and a custom Python…
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This post delivers a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) app using Gradio, MLflow Tracing, and Databricks Mosaic AI to build a quick chat interface for testing and rapid customer feedback, with support for streaming and citations from a vector database. It extends the app built on the Databricks Demo “Build High-Quality RAG Apps with Mosaic AI…
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Databricks was founded on the principle of being open from day one. Databricks engineers are the original creators of some of the world’s most popular open-source data technologies and pioneers of the Lakehouse, offering a leading solution available across the three major hyperscalers: AWS, Azure, and GCP. Most importantly, all foundational technologies of Databricks—like Spark,…
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Put simply, observability is the ability to infer the internal states of a system based on the data it generates, such as logs, metrics, and traces. Observability is foundational to site reliability engineering. It’s a concept derived from control theory, particularly relevant to distributed systems due to the challenges in maintaining a cohesive whole. Observability…
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Like many other developers, I’ve felt the impact of Microsoft’s decision to retire Azure Media Services as they shift focus to ‘secular’ growth areas—a change that directly affects my martial arts SaaS solution, http://www.jitzs.com, which relied heavily on this service. As I’ve been redesigning Jitzs to fully deliver our video intelligence capabilities using open-source technologies,…
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