Sponsored by: Qubika | Building a Modern Data Foundation on Databricks: Lessons learned from FanDuel Migration
Overview
| Experience | In Person |
|---|---|
| Track | Lakebase |
| Industry | Communications, Media & Entertainment, Consulting & Services, Financial Services |
| Technologies | Unity Catalog, Databricks Apps, Lakebase |
| Skill Level | Intermediate |
Modern data platform migrations are no longer purely technical initiatives. They are business programs that reshape the foundation for operations, compliance, real-time decision making, and future AI adoption. In this session, Qubika shares how we partnered with FanDuel to migrate core workloads from Amazon Redshift to the Databricks Lakehouse in a highly regulated, real-time environment. We cover the key engineering challenges, including rebuilding governance and metadata in Unity Catalog, validating data consistency at scale, and preserving developer velocity across large, multi-team migrations. We then show how these lessons led us to design an AI-powered Migration and Governance Agent, built natively on Databricks and powered by Lakebase as its persistent memory layer, to manage long-running workflows, reason over dependencies, and automate Databricks-ready governance artifacts. Attendees will leave with a practical blueprint to industrialize migrations and reduce risk.
Session Speakers
Sebastian Diaz
/SVP of Data & AI
Qubika