How HomeAway is Transforming the Vacation Rental Industry with DatabricksNovember 3, 2016 by Wayne Chan in Company Blog We are proud to announce that HomeAway, a subsidiary of Expedia and one of the world's leading online marketplaces for the vacation rental...
On-Demand Webinar and FAQ: Databricks for Data EngineersNovember 1, 2016 by Wayne Chan in Company Blog Last week, we held a live webinar— Databricks for Data Engineers —to provide an overview of the data engineering role, common challenges data...
Running Apache Spark Clusters with Spot Instances in DatabricksOctober 25, 2016 by Sameer Farooqui in Product Using Amazon EC2 Spot instances to launch your Apache Spark clusters can significantly reduce the cost of running your big data applications in...
7 Tips to Debug Apache Spark Code Faster with DatabricksOctober 18, 2016 by Vida Ha in Product Vida Ha is a lead solution architect at Databricks. She has over a decade of experience building big data applications at Google, Square...
New Webinar: Databricks for Data EngineersOctober 12, 2016 by Wayne Chan in Company Blog Date & Time: October 26th, 2016 at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC Presenter: Prakash Chockalingam - Product Manager, Databricks [btn...
New Webinar: How Edmunds.com leverages Apache Spark on Databricks to Improve Customer ConversionOctober 5, 2016 by Wayne Chan in Company Blog Date & Time: October 19th, 2016 at 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET / 5:00pm UTC Presenters: Shaun Elliott - Senior Software Engineer &...
How to Evaluate a Cloud-based Apache Spark PlatformSeptember 28, 2016 by Wayne Chan in Company Blog As the most active open source project in big data, Apache Spark is taking the world by storm. This rise to prominence coupled...
Writing Data Engineering Pipelines in Apache Spark on DatabricksSeptember 6, 2016 by Bill Chambers in Company Blog Try this notebook in Databricks This is part 3 of a 3 part series providing a gentle introduction to writing Apache Spark applications...
Notebook Workflows: The Easiest Way to Implement Apache Spark PipelinesAugust 30, 2016 by Dave Wang, Eric Liang and Maddie Schults in Product [glossary_parse]Today we are excited to announce Notebook Workflows in Databricks. Notebook Workflows is a set of APIs that allow users to chain notebooks...
On-demand webinar available: Databricks’ Data PipelineAugust 16, 2016 by Dave Wang in Company Blog Two weeks ago we held a live webinar – Databricks' Data Pipeline: Journey and Lessons Learned – to show how Databricks used Apache...