Databricks Engineering Interns & Impact in Summer 2018
Thanks to our awesome interns! This summer, our Engineering interns at Databricks did amazing work. Our interns, working on teams from Developer Tools to Machine Learning, built features and improvements which are already impacting our customers and the Apache Spark and AI communities. Spending a summer at Databricks Databricks Engineering internships are a mix of...
MLflow v0.7.0 Features New R API by RStudio
Today, we’re excited to announce MLflow v0.7.0, released with new features, including a new MLflow R client API contributed by RStudio. A testament to MLflow’s design goal of an open platform with adoption in the community, RStudio’s contribution extends the MLflow platform to a larger R community of data scientists who use RStudio and R...
Databricks Delta: Now Available in Preview as Part of Microsoft Azure Databricks
Bringing unprecedented reliability and performance to cloud data lakes Designed by Databricks in collaboration with Microsoft, Azure Databricks combines the best of Databricks’ Apache SparkTM-based cloud service and Microsoft Azure. The integrated service provides the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform integrated with the Azure cloud platform, encompassing the Azure Portal; Azure Active Directory; and other data...
By Customer Demand: Databricks and Snowflake Integration
Today, we are proud to announce a partnership between Snowflake and Databricks that will help our customers further unify Big Data and AI by providing an optimized, production-grade integration between Snowflake’s built for the cloud-built data warehouse and Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform. Over the course of the last year, our joint customers such as Rue...
5 Reasons to Attend Spark + AI Summit Europe 2018
The world’s largest event for the Apache Spark Community By Singh Garewal Posted in COMPANY BLOG August 27, 2018 Spark + AI Summit Europe will be held in London on October 2-4, 2018. Check out the full agenda and get your ticket before it sells out! Register today with the discount code 5Reasons and get...
Announcing Databricks Runtime 4.3
I'm pleased to announce the release of Databricks Runtime 4.3, powered by Apache Spark. We've packed this release with an assortment of new features, performance improvements, and quality improvements to the platform. We recommend moving to Databricks Runtime 4.3 in order to take advantage of these improvements. In our obsession to continually improve our platform’s...
MLflow 0.4.2 Released
Today, we’re excited to announce MLflow v0.4.0, MLflow v0.4.1, and v0.4.2 which we released within the last week with some of the recently requested features. MLflow 0.4.2 is already available on PyPI and docs are updated. If you do pip install mlflow as described in the MLflow quickstart guide, you will get the recent release. In this...
Get Certified on Apache Spark™ with Databricks
In a world of rapidly changing products, companies investing in technology need well-trained experts to run it. Certifications are a key differentiator in a competitive job market because they validate your skills and expertise while keeping you relevant. In fact, certifications may impact career growth more than degrees, since business leaders perceive them as more...
MLflow v0.3.0 Released
Today, we’re excited to announce MLflow v0.3.0, which we released last week with some of the requested features from internal clients and open source users. MLflow 0.3.0 is already available on PyPI and docs are updated. If you do pip install mlflow as described in the MLflow quickstart guide, you will get the recent release....
Announcing Databricks Runtime 4.2!
We’re excited to announce Databricks Runtime 4.2, powered by Apache Spark™. Version 4.2 includes updated Spark internals, new features, and major performance upgrades to Databricks Delta, as well as general quality improvements to the platform. We are moving quickly toward the Databricks Delta general availability (GA) release and we recommend you upgrade to Databricks Runtime...
