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This is a collaborative post from Bread Finance and Databricks. We thank co-author Christina Taylor, Senior Data Engineer--Bread Finance, for her contribution. Bread, a division of Alliance Data Systems, is a technology-driven payments company that integrates with merchants and partners to personalize payment options for their customers. The Bread platform allows merchants to offer more...

Today, Databricks is known for our backend engineering, building and operating cloud systems that span millions of virtual machines processing exabytes of data each day. What's not as obvious is the focus on crafting user experiences that make data more accessible and usable. We thought it’s time to highlight that via a series of posts...

Summer 2021 brought another summer of virtual game nights, pizza parties and team-building events for Databricks interns. In addition to working on impactful projects that ranged from improving our customer user journey to scaling the Databricks authentication services, our interns were also able to build relationships with their peers and create their own community with...

This is a guest post from Tomasz Magdanski, Sr Director of Engineering, Asurion.   With its insurance and installation, repair, replacement and 24/7 support services, Asurion helps people protect, connect and enjoy the latest tech – to make life a little easier. Every day our team of 10,000 experts helps nearly 300 million people around...

At Databricks, we know that impactful data transformation in any organization starts with empowered individuals. This is why we are excited to launch the Databricks Community to serve as an engaging online meeting place and discussion forum for data practitioners, partners and Databricks employees to get reliable answers relating to data and AI from experts...

This is a guest authored post by Yu Chen, Senior Software Engineer, Headspace.   Headspace’s core products are iOS, Android and web-based apps that focus on improving the health and happiness of its users through mindfulness, meditation, sleep, exercise and focus content. Machine learning (ML) models are core to our user experiences by offering recommendations...

How do you take 10k events per second from 30M users to create a better gamer experience? How can a small data team build more automated workflows to grow impact across all business units, from finance to game development  to marketing? In a recent virtual roundtable, we heard from the data teams at industry innovators...

India is a vast country with extreme variations. A one-size-fits-all workplace does not do it justice. Although continued urbanization, transportation, and infrastructure are the foundation for connectedness, adaptability to these changes is key for successfully bringing teams together. When we first launched our India HQ in 2017, we were equally focused on building a culture...

Today, I am excited to announce that I have officially joined Databricks as an Engineer on the Data Science team. This move comes after over a year of founding and running Staroid, a cloud-based platform that simplifies the delivery and deployment of open source projects at the enterprise level. I have been a heavy Apache...

With roots in academia and open source, we know much of Databricks’ success is due to the community- the data scientists, data engineers, developers, data architects, data analysts, open-source contributors and data evangelists alike. Today, we are proud to introduce Databricks Beacons, a global program that is our way to thank and celebrate those who...