Enterprise Governance with Unity Catalog & Databricks implementation with R Jobs
Details
Please join us for our first in-person Databricks session in a long time. During this session, we will cover two different topics:
- Vinny Vijeyakumaar from Databricks will talk to us about "Enterprise Governance on Data Lake with Unity Catalog"
- Deon Jacobs from Data-Driven will walk us through a customer use case: "Databricks Implementation with R Jobs Migration"
AGENDA:
5:00 pm - Start with 30min of networking
5:30 - The presentation starts:
- Quick introduction
- Enterprise Governance on Data Lake with Unity Catalog
- Databricks Implementation with R Jobs Migration (Use-case)
- Q&A
6:30 pm - Networking with Pizza and drinks
SESSION OVERVIEW:
Enterprise Governance on Data Lake with Unity Catalog
Governance and reliable data asset management are key to a successful Lakehouse strategy. During the session, we’ll learn how Unity Catalog brings enhanced security to your data lake + warehouse and introduces nifty productivity tools such as lineage tracking.
Learning Points:
- Unified governance across Databricks Workspaces
- Take the guesswork about data through Lineage reports
- Democratise data through better Data Discovery
- See what the roadmap holds
Databricks Implementation with R Jobs Migration
Presentation of a real customer Databricks implementation with the migration of existing R Jobs used by the Data Science team.
Key customer benefits showcased:
- Easy to migrate and maintain R Jobs logic previously implemented
- Increase team collaboration
- Ability to expand the Data Science Team
- Increase the team reporting capabilities
MEETUP HOSTS:
Vinny Vijeyakumaar, Senior Solutions Architect at Databricks
Vinny Vijeyakumaar consults with businesses big & small on maximising value from their data at Databricks. Vinny has been in the data space for 15+ years.
His data experience has taken him from scaling MySQL databases for startups, driving Google Analytics adoption in Southeast Asia, running analytics consultancies, being a smart analytics specialist at Google Cloud, and now building out Lakehouses with Databricks. Come say hi, as Vinny is always up for a chat on how to make data & ML as effortless as possible!
Deon Jacobs, Head of Data and Analytics at Data-Driven
Deon Jacobs has a proven track record of translating business concepts into production deployments across a broad range of vertical markets.
With his strong engineering background, Deon uses a first-principles approach to confront business problems in a logical and ordered manner. Deon is a highly motivated and personable individual, who enjoys seeing businesses realize their digital transformation objectives.
MEETUP SPONSOR:
Data-Driven provides tailored end-to-end consulting services and solutions to help businesses transform their data into actionable insights and drive their business decisions.
Learn more about Data-Driven here.