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Advanced Data Engineering with Databricks

This course serves as an appropriate entry point to learn Advanced Data Engineering with Databricks. 


Note: Databricks Academy is transitioning to a notebook-based format for classroom sessions within the Databricks environment, discontinuing the use of slide decks for lectures in the first and fourth module. You can access the lecture notebooks in the Vocareum lab environment.


Below, we describe each of the four, four-hour modules included in this course.

Advanced Techniques with Spark Declarative Pipelines

This course explores Databricks' Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines (SDP) for building production-grade streaming pipelines. You will learn advanced design patterns, robust data quality enforcement, and cross-platform integration essential for real-world lakehouse engineering.


Throughout the course, you will dive into modern data ingestion and processing techniques, mastering tools like Liquid Clustering for layout optimization and the Multiplex Streaming pattern for mixed-schema events. By the end of the modules, you will know how to confidently handle schema evolution, automate Change Data Capture (CDC), and ensure data integrity.


Through lectures and hands-on demos, you will:

• Build multi-flow pipelines to ingest multi-source data into a unified Bronze table.

• Apply Liquid Clustering and Data Quality Expectations across Silver and Gold layers.

• Implement the Multiplex pattern with Iceberg UniForm for cross-platform data access.

• Automate SCD Type 2 history tracking using AUTO CDC INTO.

• Design zero-data-loss quarantine pipelines to audit and manage invalid records.


Databricks Data Privacy

This content is intended for the learner persona of data engineers or for customers, partners, and employees who complete data engineering tasks with Databricks. It aims to provide them with the necessary knowledge and skills to execute these activities effectively on the Databricks platform.


Databricks Performance Optimization

In this course, you’ll learn how to optimize workloads and physical layout with Spark and Delta Lake and and analyze the Spark UI to assess performance and debug applications. We’ll cover topics like streaming, liquid clustering, data skipping, caching, photons, and more.


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.


Languages Available: English | 日本語 | Português BR | 한국어

Skill Level
Professional
Duration
16h
Prerequisites

Prerequisites

• Spark Declarative Pipelines — Completion of the "Build Data Pipelines with Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines" course, or familiarity with CREATE OR REFRESH STREAMING TABLE, CONSTRAINTS, and the Pipelines UI

• Delta Lake Fundamentals — Understanding of Delta tables and how Delta manages data files and transaction logs

• Streaming Concepts — Knowledge of micro-batch streaming, checkpointing, and event-time processing in SDP

• SQL Proficiency — Ability to read and write SQL, including SELECT, JOIN, MERGE, CASE WHEN, and common aggregate functions

• Python in Databricks Notebooks — Comfort with reading and running Python code in Databricks notebooks

• Unity Catalog Basics — Understanding of catalogs, schemas, tables, and volumes in Unity Catalog

• Ability to perform basic code development tasks using the Databricks Data Engineering and Data Science workspace (create clusters, run code in notebooks, use basic notebook operations, import repos from git, etc.)

• Intermediate programming experience with PySpark

• Extract data from a variety of file formats and data sources

• Apply a number of common transformations to clean data

• Reshape and manipulate complex data using advanced built-in functions

• Intermediate programming experience with Delta Lake (create tables, perform complete and incremental updates, compact files, restore previous versions, etc.) 

• Beginner experience configuring and scheduling data pipelines using the Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines UI 

• Beginner experience defining Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines using PySpark 

• Ingest and process data using Auto Loader and PySpark syntax

• Process Change Data Capture feeds with APPLY CHANGES INTO syntax

• Review pipeline event logs and results to troubleshoot Declarative Pipeline syntax

• Strong knowledge of the Databricks platform, including experience with Databricks Workspaces, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, the Medallion Architecture, Unity Catalog, Apache Declarative Pipelines, and Workflows. In particular, knowledge of leveraging Expectations with Apache Declarative Pipelines. 

• Experience in data ingestion and transformation, with proficiency in PySpark for data processing and DataFrame manipulation. Candidates should also have experience writing intermediate-level SQL queries for data analysis and transformation.

• Proficiency in Python programming, including the ability to design and implement functions and classes, and experience with creating, importing, and utilizing Python packages.

• Familiarity with DevOps practices, particularly continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) principles.

• A basic understanding of Git version control.

• Prerequisite course DevOps Essentials for Data Engineering Course

Outline

Advanced Techniques with Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines

• Introduction to Multi Flows, Expectation and Liquid Clustering in SDP

• Demo: Multi Flow SDP with Liquid Clustering and Data Quality

• Introduction to Multiplex Streaming, Delta Sinks and  Iceberg Reads

• Demo: Multiplex Streaming SDP with Delta Sinks and Iceberg Reads

• Change Data Capture (CDC) Review

• Demo: Automating SCD Type 2 with AUTO CDC in Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines

• Advanced Data Quality Checks and Expectations in SDP

• Demo: Advanced Data Quality Checks and Expectation in SDP

• Lab - Building Multi-Source Ecommerce Pipeline with SDP


Databricks Data Privacy

• Regulatory Compliance

• Data Privacy

• Key Concepts and Components

• Audit Your Data

• Data Isolation

• Demo: Securing Data in Unity Catalog 

• Pseudonymization & Anonymization

• Summary & Best Practices

• Demo: PII Data Security

• Capturing Changed Data

• Deleting Data in Databricks

• Demo: Processing Records from CDF and Propagating Changes

• Lab: Propagating Changes with CDF Lab


Databricks Performance Optimization

• DevOps Spark UI Introduction

• Introduction to Designing Foundation

• Demo: File Explosion

• Data Skipping and Liquid Clustering

• Lab: Data Skipping and Liquid Clustering

• Skew

• Shuffles

• Demo: Shuffle

• Spill

• Lab: Exploding Join

• Serialization

• Demo: User-Defined Functions

• Fine-Tuning: Choosing the Right Cluster

• Pick the Best Instance Types


Automated Deployment with Declarative Automation Bundles

• DevOps Review

• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment/Delivery (CI/CD) Review

• Demo: Course Setup and Authentication

• Deploying Databricks Projects

• Introduction to Declarative Automation Bundles (DABs)

• Demo: Deploying a Simple DAB

• Lab: Deploying a Simple DAB

• Variable Substitutions in DABs

• Demo: Deploying a DAB to Multiple Environments

• Lab: Deploy a DAB to Multiple Environments

• DAB Project Templates Overview

• Lab: Use a Databricks Default DAB Template

• CI/CD Project Overview with DABs

• Demo: Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment with DABs

• Lab: Adding ML to Engineering Workflows with DABs

• Developing Locally with Visual Studio Code (VSCode)

• Demo: Using VSCode with Databricks

• CI/CD Best Practices for Data Engineering

• Next Steps: Automated Deployment with GitHub Actions

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Generative AI Engineer

Generative AI Engineering with Databricks - Spanish

Este curso está dirigido a científicos de datos, ingenieros de machine learning y otros profesionales de datos que desean crear aplicaciones de IA generativa utilizando los frameworks más recientes y populares y las funcionalidades de Databricks.

Nota: Databricks Academy está migrando a un formato basado en notebooks para las sesiones en el aula dentro del entorno de Databricks, y deja de utilizar diapositivas para las clases. Puede acceder a los notebooks de las clases en el entorno de laboratorio de Vocareum.

A continuación, describimos cada uno de los cuatro módulos de cuatro horas incluidos en este curso.

Building RAG Agents with Agent Bricks: este curso ofrece capacitación práctica para crear agentes de recuperación utilizando Databricks Agent Bricks. Los participantes aprenderán a explorar y consultar Knowledge Assistants, analizar documentos no estructurados para convertirlos en datos estructurados mediante AI Functions, dividir texto en fragmentos (chunks) para la recuperación semántica, crear índices de Vector Search y crear Knowledge Assistants listos para producción respaldados por múltiples fuentes de conocimiento.

Building Agentic Applications on Databricks: este curso enseña a los estudiantes a crear aplicaciones agénticas de nivel de producción en Databricks. Los estudiantes aprenden a crear herramientas de agente gobernadas mediante Unity Catalog y MCP, crear sistemas de agente único y multiagente con el OpenAI Agents SDK, y aprovechar Agent Bricks y Genie para casos de uso de knowledge assistant orquestados con un agente supervisor. El curso abarca toda la progresión, desde la creación de prototipos de herramientas hasta la implementación en producción, con experiencia práctica utilizando el rastreo (tracing) de MLflow para observar la ejecución del agente.

Agent Evaluation on Databricks: este curso enseña a los estudiantes a evaluar sistemáticamente agentes de IA utilizando el framework de evaluación de MLflow, abordando los desafíos únicos de los sistemas de IA no deterministas que las pruebas de software tradicionales no pueden manejar. Los estudiantes aprenden a implementar diversos enfoques de evaluación, incluidos los jueces integrados (built-in judges) para criterios comunes como la corrección y la seguridad, los jueces basados en directrices para requisitos específicos del negocio y los jueces personalizados para necesidades especializadas. El curso abarca tanto la evaluación sin conexión utilizando conjuntos de datos (datasets) seleccionados como el monitoreo de producción en línea, con experiencia práctica utilizando las capacidades de rastreo (tracing) de MLflow para comprender los patrones de ejecución del agente y recopilar retroalimentación humana de diferentes tipos de partes interesadas. A través de demostraciones y laboratorios prácticos, los estudiantes desarrollan habilidades para crear flujos de trabajo de evaluación que impulsan mejoras continuas de calidad a lo largo del ciclo de vida de desarrollo de los agentes de IA.

Deploying and Monitoring Agent Applications on Databricks: este curso abarca el ciclo de vida completo para implementar y monitorear agentes de IA generativa en Databricks. Los participantes aprenderán a implementar agentes como Databricks Apps utilizando Declarative Automation Bundles (DABs), integrar herramientas mediante el Model Context Protocol (MCP), instrumentar agentes con MLflow Tracing y evaluar la calidad en producción utilizando scorers, jueces de múltiples turnos y evaluación en línea. A través de demos y laboratorios prácticos, los participantes adquirirán experiencia práctica en la creación, observación y monitoreo de agentes de IA de nivel de producción en la plataforma Databricks.

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16h
Lab
instructor-led
Associate
Generative AI Engineer

Generative AI Engineering with Databricks - French

Ce cours s’adresse aux data scientists, aux ingénieurs en machine learning et aux autres professionnels des données qui souhaitent créer des applications d’IA générative à l’aide des frameworks les plus récents et les plus populaires et des fonctionnalités de Databricks.

Remarque : Databricks Academy passe à un format basé sur des notebooks pour les sessions en classe dans l’environnement Databricks, et n’utilise plus de diaporamas pour les cours. Vous pouvez accéder aux notebooks de cours dans l’environnement de laboratoire Vocareum.

Ci-dessous, nous décrivons chacun des quatre modules de quatre heures inclus dans ce cours.

Building RAG Agents with Agent Bricks : ce cours propose une formation pratique à la création d’agents de récupération à l’aide de Databricks Agent Bricks. Les participants apprendront à explorer et à interroger les Knowledge Assistants, à analyser des documents non structurés pour les convertir en données structurées à l’aide des AI Functions, à découper le texte en fragments (chunks) pour la récupération sémantique, à créer des index Vector Search et à créer des Knowledge Assistants prêts pour la production s’appuyant sur plusieurs sources de connaissances.

Building Agentic Applications on Databricks : ce cours enseigne aux étudiants comment créer des applications agentiques de niveau production sur Databricks. Les étudiants apprennent à créer des outils d’agent gouvernés à l’aide d’Unity Catalog et de MCP, à créer des systèmes à agent unique et multi-agents avec l’OpenAI Agents SDK, et à exploiter Agent Bricks et Genie pour des cas d’usage de knowledge assistant orchestrés avec un agent superviseur. Le cours couvre l’ensemble de la progression, du prototypage des outils au déploiement en production, avec une expérience pratique de l’utilisation du traçage (tracing) MLflow pour observer l’exécution des agents.

Agent Evaluation on Databricks : ce cours enseigne aux étudiants comment évaluer systématiquement les agents IA à l’aide du cadre d’évaluation de MLflow, en relevant les défis propres aux systèmes d’IA non déterministes que les tests logiciels traditionnels ne peuvent pas gérer. Les étudiants apprennent à mettre en œuvre diverses approches d’évaluation, notamment les juges intégrés (built-in judges) pour des critères courants tels que l’exactitude et la sécurité, les juges basés sur des directives pour des exigences propres à l’entreprise, et les juges personnalisés pour des besoins spécialisés. Le cours couvre à la fois l’évaluation hors ligne à l’aide d’ensembles de données (datasets) sélectionnés et la surveillance de la production en ligne, avec une expérience pratique de l’utilisation des capacités de traçage (tracing) de MLflow pour comprendre les schémas d’exécution des agents et recueillir les retours humains de différents types de parties prenantes. Grâce à des démonstrations et des laboratoires pratiques, les étudiants développent des compétences pour créer des flux de travail d’évaluation qui favorisent l’amélioration continue de la qualité tout au long du cycle de vie de développement des agents IA.

Deploying and Monitoring Agent Applications on Databricks : ce cours couvre le cycle de vie de bout en bout pour le déploiement et la surveillance des agents d’IA générative sur Databricks. Les participants apprendront à déployer des agents en tant que Databricks Apps à l’aide des Declarative Automation Bundles (DABs), à intégrer des outils via le Model Context Protocol (MCP), à instrumenter les agents avec MLflow Tracing, et à évaluer la qualité en production à l’aide de scorers, de juges multi-tours et de l’évaluation en ligne. Grâce à des démos et des laboratoires pratiques, les participants acquerront une expérience pratique de la création, de l’observation et de la surveillance d’agents IA de niveau production sur la plateforme Databricks.

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16h
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Associate

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