Usergroup Meetup #7 (at Delegate in Aarhus)

Welcome to the #7 meetup of the Databricks User Group Denmark!

We're excited to announce our next meetup and welcome seasoned as well as new members. Your participation and contributions are highly valued, and we hope to see you at the event.

In this session, we will focuse on Databricks Serverless compute, FinOps and cost optimization, as well as Power BI control from Spark using SPETLR library.

Date and time: 25th September 2024 17:00-20:00.
Venue: Delegate Aarhus, Søren Frichs Vej 36G, 2. floor, 8230 Åbyhøj
Agenda:

17:00 – 17:15 Doors open / welcome

17:15 – 18:15 Serverless compute, FinOps and cost optimization
Speaker: Christian Winther Kristensen, Principal Architect @ Twoday A/S

• Usage scenarios for serverless compute for notebooks and jobs
• FinOps reporting for Databricks costs using UC system tables, tagging and Azure cost analyzer
• Cost optimization tips for Azure Databricks: compute selection (VMs/photon/spot workers), cluster sizing, storage, serverless etc.
• Q&A

18:15 – 18:45 Sandwich / mingling

18:45 – 19:45 Access and control Power BI from Spark/ Databricks using SPETLR

• Open-source spetlr library
• Databricks integration with PowerBi
• Refreshing PowerBi semantic models from Spark
• Processing PowerBi refresh data in Spark
• Q&A

Speaker: Radek Buczkowski, Senior Consultant@ Delegate

19:45 – 20:00 Wrap-up / next meetup

Information:

• This agenda is subject to change.
• The meeting is physical attendance only and it will not be possible to join online.
• Parking is possible in the parking areas nearby (remember to start your parking-app).