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MaithreyanAug 31, 2026 • 5 min read
My PySpark Pipeline Was Reading the Same Table 3 Times — Here's Why
My PySpark pipeline was slow. I assumed it needed more cluster resources. It actually needed one lin...
#pyspark#dataengineering#apachespark#databricks
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MaithreyanAug 31, 2026 • 5 min read
95% of My PySpark Job Finished in 4 Minutes. The Last Task Took 40. Here's Why.
I had a PySpark job joining a large transactions table with a customer dimension table. Nothing...
#pyspark#dataengineering#apachespark#databricks
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Zephico TechnologiesAug 27, 2026 • 4 min read
What the Databricks REST API can and can't automate in a large migration
Bulk-exporting jobs, clusters and permissions via API is the easy 80%. The hard 20% of a large Datab...
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Zephico TechnologiesSep 1, 2026 • 3 min read
Databricks or Snowflake? How mid-size companies should choose
The platforms have converged on paper. The right choice still comes down to your workloads, your tea...
#databricks#dataengineering
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Aniket Abhishek SoniAug 30, 2026 • 6 min read
Is Your Silver Layer Just a Slow-Motion Train Wreck?
It was 3:15 AM on a Tuesday when the PagerDuty alerts started screaming. Our Bronze-to-Silver...
#databricks#delta#dataengineering#pipelines
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Zephico TechnologiesAug 27, 2026 • 3 min read
Databricks SQL vs a classic BI warehouse: what actually changes for your analysts
DBSQL looks like just another warehouse endpoint from a BI tool. For analysts day to day, several re...
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Zephico TechnologiesAug 27, 2026 • 3 min read
Mosaic AI for a first GenAI feature: what has to be in place before model serving
Standing up a Mosaic AI serving endpoint takes an afternoon. Answer quality depends on the retrieval...
#databricks#ai
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Zephico TechnologiesAug 27, 2026 • 3 min read
Unity Catalog and open formats: Delta, Iceberg and UniForm without picking a side
You don't have to choose between Delta and Iceberg. UniForm and Unity Catalog's Iceberg REST endpoin...
#databricks#dataengineering
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Zephico TechnologiesAug 27, 2026 • 3 min read
Shipping a data app on the lakehouse: Databricks Apps in practice
Databricks Apps hosts interactive tools inside the workspace, with Unity Catalog access and auth bui...
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Zephico TechnologiesAug 27, 2026 • 3 min read
Serverless Databricks: when it's cheaper and when it isn't
Serverless removes cluster ops and idle spend, but it carries a per-DBU premium over classic compute...
#databricks#business
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