category: Video

Video Objectives In this post we will deploy a Databricks Asset Bundle or DAB from a Git repository hosted on Azure DevOps using Azure DevOps pipelines. In summary, we will learn how to: Grant Databricks access to your Azure DevOps Git repository. Define a simple DAB that deploys a Databricks notebook. Learn how to use the Databricks CLI to validate and deploy DABs. Write a Azure DevOps pipeline to deploy this DAB. Pass parameters from the DAB into the Databricks notebook. Concerning the last point, it’s not uncommon that your code differs slightly in each Databricks environment (dev, test, prod). For example, you may have an Azure key vault my_key_vault_dev for the development workspace and my_key_vault_prod for the production workspace. We will see how to pass this workspace-dependent data from the DAB to Databricks Notebooks via widgets. ...

In this new video I share how to overcome Azure CPU quota limits with Databricks Asset Bundles, a common roadblock many Databricks practitioners face when deploying Databricks Asset Bundles on Azure for the first time. Problem If you’re playing around with Databricks projects, Azure’s default CPU quota limits often fall short of what Databricks Asset Bundle Python template jobs and pipelines actually need to run. ...

In this video I explain how to read data from an Airtable into a PySpark dataframe on Databricks. Airtable is a popular spreadsheet tool used at many enterprises. It offers additional features compared to other tools such as Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets

In this video I demonstrate how to perform data quality checks on a Delta table in Databricks using Soda Core. Soda Core is the open-source Python package developed by Soda. It can be compared to Great Expectations, but is much simpler in my opinion. I enjoy using Soda in my professional projects and will continue exploring this framework. ...