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Newsletter Archives

2026-06-07
On Patience
#037
2026-14-02
First Week at Databricks
#036
2026-05-02
Starting Out in Tech Sales at Databricks!
#035
2025-21-11
Data Quality Tests are Not Root Cause Analysis
#034
2025-07-11
New Podcast Episode: Datatude with Jim Gavigan
#033
2025-30-10
Compute as a Data Quality Testing Bottleneck
#032
2025-27-10
The Sadness of Outsourcing
#031
2025-14-10
Business Just Wants Reporting
#030
2025-13-10
Benchmarking Your New Data Platform
#029
2025-10-10
When Data Issues Aren't Really Data Issues
#028
2025-07-10
Small Business Pivot
#027
2025-01-10
Scala Case Classes versus (regular) Classes Gotcha
#026
2025-11-09
Packaging Spark sbt projects into a JAR for spark-submit
#025
2025-24-08
Updating Spark Configuration Values
#024
2025-28-07
Local Debugging with Databricks Connect
#023
2025-26-07
Scala 3 and Spark Compatibility
#022
2025-22-07
Fixing ConcurrentAppendException during saveAsTable
#020
2025-18-07
Making Sense of Tungsten's UnsafeRow Byte Counts
#020
2025-17-07
Diving Into Spark Memory Management
#019
2025-16-07
Vibe Coding: Taking Over the Wheel
#018
2025-15-07
Really Enjoying Scala
#017
2025-14-07
Spark and Case Classes in Scoping in Scala
#016
2025-13-07
Reviewing SQL Window Functions
#015
2025-12-07
Aggregate Instead of Reduce
#014
2025-11-07
Where is my Reduce?
#013
2025-10-07
Short Rant about Databricks Notebooks in Production
#012
2025-09-07
Three Types of Tables in Spark
#011
2025-08-07
Databricks Serverless Compute for Jobs
#010
2025-07-07
Limitation of the Databricks Free Edition
#009
2025-06-07
Dataframe vs Dataset API & Catalyst Optimizer: Conclusion
#008
2025-05-07
Exploring Spark's Catalyst Optimizer
#007
2025-04-07
Set Databricks Notebook Parameter Values via DABs
#006
2025-03-07
The Joy of Databricks Asset Bundles
#005
2025-02-07
Current Verdict on AI for Coding
#004
2025-01-07
Lacking Databricks Adoption
#003
2025-30-06
How to Start Learning Databricks?
#002
2025-29-06
Reflections on the Databricks Data & AI Summit
#001