Databricks Scotland March meetup
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Welcome to the Databricks Scotland Meetup in Glasgow!
Whether you're a seasoned Databricks user, just dipping your toes, or simply intrigued about what the platform can offer, this meetup promises to deliver insights, best practices, and opportunities for networking with like-minded individuals. We hope to see you there!
Come join us for the Scotland Databricks meetup at BJSS, March 13th at 5.30pm for an evening of Databricks!
17:30 - 17:45 Welcome & Networking
17:45 - 18:30 Sean Caldwell
18:30 - 19:00 Networking, Food and Drinks
19:00 - 19:45 Networking, Food and Drinks
### Spark up the Savings - Sean Caldwell
Migrating data ingestion Spark jobs from Databricks to AKS to allow more control over compute for each job. Reducing the overall cost of a data platform.
### Fabric and Databricks: Better together? - Craig Porteous
Fabric is Microsoft's new unified data platform and with it brings many questions of which platform to choose, where does Databricks excel, What makes Fabric the right choice?
But it doesn't have to be a binary choice. Rather than thinking about which route to take, You can enrich your Databricks Data Lakehouse with Microsoft Fabric, taking advantage of Fabric's key features such as lightning fast Direct Lake connectivity from your Delta Lake to Power BI.
In this session we will deep dive into the synergistic relationship between Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric. Together these platforms can deliver performance and value in data analytics. We'll explore architecture patterns to enhance and augment your existing Databricks Lakehouse allowing you to fully harness key features in Fabric all built upon the same robust storage of Delta Lake.
We will also explore how the close integration of these platforms can lead to improved analytics capabilities, and ultimately, better business insights. Whether you are an analytics engineer looking to get the most out of your data, or a business leader seeking to drive data-driven decision making, this session will provide valuable insights into maximizing the potential of your data platform by bringing Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric together
About Us
If you need to contact us for any reason you can email us at: databricks@datascotland.org
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Databricks Scotland March meetup