MGM Enterprise Data Hub: Accelerating Data Delivery With DABS CI/CD Approach

MGM Resorts is unifying our data estate, leveraging Unity Catalog for centralized governance, access control and cross‑environment consistency across gaming, hospitality and partner ecosystems. We updated our framework with DABS reducing delivery time for gold tables by 67%, enabling automated deployment and validation in under 5 min, cutting deployment code by 75%.We:

• Enabled isolation and targeted lifecycle management via a multi-bundle architecture with shared utilities in a common wheel
• Improved reliability with a GitHub Actions pipeline for sequential DEV → UAT → PROD deployments, with consistent governance across environments using Unity Catalog
• Freed engineers to focus on business logic through centralized configuration, SCD handling, and Apache Spark™ lifecycle management

Key takeaways:

• CI/CD best practices using standardized databricks.yml
• Higher reliability and faster delivery through a bundle-based pattern
• Metrics and lessons to drive low-risk, predictable releases across the org