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Databricks Onboarding Sessions

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Databricks Onboarding Sessions - Standard

Curious about Databricks? New to Databricks? Sign up for a live technical onboarding session.

 

Join us for a series of four webinars to help you make the most of Databricks.

Those webinars will repeat each month.

 

Session #1: Cluster Creation & Sizing

Tuesday 25 April, 4pm GMT I 5pm CET

Speaker: Youssef Mrini

Level: Beginner

 

In this one hour session, you will learn the basics about clusters, cost management, access control levels and governance from an experienced Customer Success Engineer (CSE), to help you get started with your projects. This session is relevant to platform admins and anyone managing clusters and/or access controls.

 

Topics covered:

  • Pricing and cost review – quick highlights of DBU and pricing structure
  • Governance – who can create clusters?
  • Architecting clusters – how to create the most efficient clusters
  • Cluster sizing – how large to make your clusters
  • Q&A

 

Session #2: Introduction to Data Engineering with Delta Lake

Wednesday 26 April, 3pm GMT I 4pm CET

Speaker: Youssef Mrini

Level: Beginner

 

During this session, you will learn about the Delta Lake Open Source project, the Lakehouse architecture, and the different Delta Lake features. Participants will also gain insight into big data limitations and bottlenecks, and best practice around scaling out data lakes efficiently.

 

Topics covered:

  • Lakehouse & Delta Lake introduction
  • Delta Lake features deep dive
  • Delta Lake architecture patterns – Bronze / Silver / Gold pipeline
  • Reconciling batch and streaming
  • Demo
  • Q&A

 

Session #3:  Introduction to Data Science on Databricks with MLflow

Wednesday 26 April, 4pm GMT I 5pm CET

Speaker: Youssef Mrini

Level: Beginner

 

During this one hour session, you will learn about the different MLflow components and how to use MLflow to track, register and serve your machine learning models.

 

Topics covered: 

  • Introduction to MLflow
  • MLflow demo:
    • Train a single node ML model and log the results in MLflow
    • MLflow UI walkthrough
    • MLflow API
  • Q&A 

 

Session #4:  Introduction to Databricks Unity Catalog

Thursday 27 April, 4pm GMT I 5pm CET

Speaker: Youssef Mrini

Level: Beginner

 

Getting started with Unity Catalog by describing the key components, creating UC enabled cluster, managing and governing table and views and addressing the lineage.

 

Topics covered:

  • Describe key concepts related to Unity Catalog
  • Manage users and groups
  • Create a Unity Catalog-enabled cluster and SQL endpoint
  • Create and govern table and views
  • Govern file access
  • Limit table access with dynamic views
  • Lineage

 

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