Less Infrastructure, Higher Impact: Nationwide’s Serverless Transformation with Databricks

Simplifying infrastructure accelerates data work and drives outcomes. The future of analytics isn’t about managing clusters; it’s about empowering users with seamless, scalable compute. In this session, Nationwide and Databricks share a real-world journey from server-managed infrastructure to Databricks Serverless, covering all-purpose compute, jobs compute, and SQL warehouses. We show how serverless simplified operations, sped up development cycles, reduced cost variability, and improved the user experience. We highlight the biggest wins, explore key design decisions that shaped success, and close with practical best practices to help your organization confidently accelerate its move to serverless.