Building Enterprise Applications with Databricks Apps

This course introduces Databricks Apps, a new feature that empowers developers to build and deploy secure data and AI applications directly on the Databricks platform. It is primarily designed for data scientists, data engineers, and developers who need to create custom applications that make data insights accessible to non-technical users within their organizations.

The course begins with an overview of the main components of Databricks Apps, followed by the deployment of a simple app that integrates with an external service. Next, you will learn how to build and deploy intelligent, data-driven applications that integrate with Databricks platform features. The course then covers how to develop apps outside the Databricks environment. It concludes with a detailed treatment of best practices for implementing secure and reliable enterprise apps.

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In this course, the content was developed for participants with these skills/knowledge/abilities:

• Basic familiarity with Databricks workspace operations, including navigation, creating notebooks, running code, and accessing workspace features through the UI

• Intermediate experience with Python programming, including virtual environments, package management, and web application development concepts

• Understanding of integrated development environments (IDEs) such as VSCode or PyCharm, including project setup, debugging, and code execution

• Basic knowledge of Unity Catalog concepts, including catalogs, schemas, tables, and data governance principles for accessing data objects programmatically

• Familiarity with command line interfaces, particularly Databricks CLI installation, configuration, and authentication using personal access tokens

• Basic understanding of web application frameworks and concepts, including user interfaces, form handling, and client-server interactions

• Beginner experience with service principals, identity management, and authentication concepts within cloud computing environments

• Basic knowledge of application deployment concepts, including local development, testing, and production deployment workflows

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Automated Deployment with Declarative Automation Bundles

This course provides a comprehensive review of DevOps principles and their application to Databricks projects. It begins with an overview of core DevOps, DataOps, continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD), and testing, and explores how these principles can be applied to data engineering pipelines.

The course then focuses on continuous deployment within the CI/CD process, examining tools like the Databricks REST API, SDK, and CLI for project deployment. You will learn about Declarative Automation Bundles (DABs) and how they fit into the CI/CD process. You’ll dive into their key components, folder structure, and how they streamline deployment across various target environments in Databricks. You will also learn how to add variables, modify, validate, deploy, and execute Declarative Automation Bundles for multiple environments with different configurations using the Databricks CLI.

Finally, the course introduces Visual Studio Code as an Interactive Development Environment (IDE) for building, testing, and deploying Declarative Automation Bundles locally, optimizing your development process. The course concludes with an introduction to automating deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions to enhance the CI/CD workflow with Declarative Automation Bundles.

By the end of this course, you will be equipped to automate Databricks project deployments with Declarative Automation Bundles, improving efficiency through DevOps practices.

Note:

1. Databricks Academy is transitioning from video lectures to a more streamlined PDF format with slides and notes for all self-paced courses. Please note that demo videos will still be available in their original format. We would love to hear your thoughts on this change, so please share your feedback through the course survey at the end. Thank you for being a part of our learning community!

2. This course is the fourth in the 'Advanced Data Engineering with Databricks' series.

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Get Started with Databricks for Data Warehousing

This course provides a comprehensive, hands-on overview of Databricks' modern approach to data warehousing, highlighting how a data lakehouse architecture combines the strengths of traditional data warehouses with the flexibility and scalability of the cloud. Working end-to-end with a fictional retailer (Vintage Audio Co.), you will explore the workspace, query governed Unity Catalog tables, keep Delta tables fast for analytical reads, load data incrementally with Auto Loader, model a star schema, and deliver consistent insights through Unity Catalog metric views — all from a single, governed environment, with AI-driven features (Predictive Optimization, Genie Code) built in throughout.

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Agent Evaluation on Databricks

This course teaches students how to systematically evaluate AI agents using MLflow's evaluation framework, addressing the unique challenges of non-deterministic AI systems that traditional software testing cannot handle. Students learn to implement various evaluation approaches including built-in judges for common criteria like correctness and safety, guideline judges for business-specific requirements, and custom judges for specialized needs. The course covers both offline evaluation using curated datasets and online production monitoring, with hands-on experience using MLflow's tracing capabilities to understand agent execution patterns and collect human feedback from different stakeholder types. Through practical demonstrations and labs, students develop skills in creating evaluation workflows that drive continuous quality improvements throughout the AI agent development lifecycle.

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