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This is a guest authored post by Bart Del Piero, Data Scientist, DPG Media. At the start of a campaign, marketers and publishers will often have a hypothesis of who the target segment will be, but once a campaign starts, it can be very difficult to see who actually responds, abstract a segment based on...

Today, we are excited to announce the opening of our Seattle R&D site and our plan to hire hundreds of engineers in Seattle in the next several years. Our office location is in downtown Bellevue. At Databricks, we are passionate about enabling data teams to solve the world's toughest problems — from making the next...

This is a collaborative post from Accenture and Databricks. We thank Matt Arellano, Managing Director, Global Data & AI Ecosystem Lead -- Accenture, for his contributions.   To keep pace with the competition and address customer demands, companies are looking to quickly bring new capabilities to the market, boost innovation and scale more efficiently. Customers...

On Nov 2, 2021, we announced that we set the official world record for the fastest data warehouse with our Databricks SQL lakehouse platform. These results were audited and reported by the official Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) in a 37-page document available online at tpc.org. We also shared a third-party benchmark by the Barcelona...

This year, we’re doing things a bit differently. In this still very virtual world, we wanted to find a way to bring the energy of Data + AI Summit and the power of lakehouse to a whole new audience. That’s why we're thrilled to introduce the community to Data + AI World Tour, which brings...

We are excited to announce a new program called Databricks Engineering Fellowship to recognize new graduates with exceptional academic achievements or extracurricular impact, in the field of computer science. This fellowship supports new graduates joining Databricks in all areas relevant to Databricks engineering, covering computer systems, databases, frontend development, infrastructure, machine learning, security, and more....

At Databricks, we often use the phrase “the future is open” to refer to technology; it reflects our belief that open data architecture will win out and subsume proprietary ones (we just set a new official record on TPC-DS). But "open" isn't just about code. It's about how we as an industry operate and foster...

With COVID precautions still in place, the 2021 Databricks Software Engineering Summer internship was conducted virtually with members of the intern class joining us from their home offices located throughout the world. As always, this year’s interns collaborated on a number of impactful projects, covering a wide range of data and computer science disciplines, from...

This post is a part of our blog series on our frontend work. You can see the previous one on “Simplifying Data + AI, One Line of TypeScript at a Time.” After years of working on data visualization tools, I recently joined Databricks as a founding member of the visualization team, which aims to develop...

Today, we are proud to announce that Databricks SQL has set a new world record in 100TB TPC-DS, the gold standard performance benchmark for data warehousing. Databricks SQL outperformed the previous record by 2.2x. Unlike most other benchmark news, this result has been formally audited and reviewed by the TPC council. These results were corroborated...