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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...

This is a collaborative post from Bread Finance and Databricks. We thank co-author Christina Taylor, Senior Data Engineer--Bread Finance, for her contribution. Bread, a division of Alliance Data Systems, is a technology-driven payments company that integrates with merchants and partners to personalize payment options for their customers. The Bread platform allows merchants to offer more...

Today, Databricks is known for our backend engineering, building and operating cloud systems that span millions of virtual machines processing exabytes of data each day. What's not as obvious is the focus on crafting user experiences that make data more accessible and usable. We thought it’s time to highlight that via a series of posts...

Summer 2021 brought another summer of virtual game nights, pizza parties and team-building events for Databricks interns. In addition to working on impactful projects that ranged from improving our customer user journey to scaling the Databricks authentication services, our interns were also able to build relationships with their peers and create their own community with...

This is a guest post from Tomasz Magdanski, Sr Director of Engineering, Asurion.   With its insurance and installation, repair, replacement and 24/7 support services, Asurion helps people protect, connect and enjoy the latest tech – to make life a little easier. Every day our team of 10,000 experts helps nearly 300 million people around...

At Databricks, we know that impactful data transformation in any organization starts with empowered individuals. This is why we are excited to launch the Databricks Community to serve as an engaging online meeting place and discussion forum for data practitioners, partners and Databricks employees to get reliable answers relating to data and AI from experts...

This is a guest authored post by Yu Chen, Senior Software Engineer, Headspace.   Headspace’s core products are iOS, Android and web-based apps that focus on improving the health and happiness of its users through mindfulness, meditation, sleep, exercise and focus content. Machine learning (ML) models are core to our user experiences by offering recommendations...

How do you take 10k events per second from 30M users to create a better gamer experience? How can a small data team build more automated workflows to grow impact across all business units, from finance to game development  to marketing? In a recent virtual roundtable, we heard from the data teams at industry innovators...

India is a vast country with extreme variations. A one-size-fits-all workplace does not do it justice. Although continued urbanization, transportation, and infrastructure are the foundation for connectedness, adaptability to these changes is key for successfully bringing teams together. When we first launched our India HQ in 2017, we were equally focused on building a culture...