Category: Engineering

The next generation of Databricks SQL (DBSQL) dashboards, also known as Lakeview Dashboards, is now generally available on AWS and Azure. This new dashboarding experience is optimized for ease of use, scalable and secure distribution, governance, and performance. “Lakeview dashboards have been critical to the latest product suite our team brought to market. We used […]

We released Ray support public preview last year and since then, hundreds of Databricks customers have been using it for variety of use cases such as multi-model hierarchical forecasting, LLM finetuning, and Reinforcement learning. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Ray support on Databricks. Ray is now included as part of […]

Introduction In this blog post we dive into inference with DBRX, the open state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) created by Databricks (see Introducing DBRX). We discuss how DBRX was designed from the ground up for both efficient inference and advanced model quality, we summarize how we achieved cutting-edge performance on our platform, and end with […]

As eBay continues to find ways to bring our huge selection of items to our customers, we’re creating features to both inspire and help shoppers find the items they love. This is why we are so excited about ‘shop the look’, our latest generative AI-powered enhancement.  Shop the look is an immersive carousel of looks, […]

Introduction This article introduces the GrabX Decision Engine, an internal open-source package that offers a comprehensive framework for designing and analysing experiments conducted on online experiment platforms. The package encompasses a wide range of functionalities, including a pre-experiment advisor, a post-experiment analysis toolbox, and other advanced tools. In this article, we explore the motivation behind […]

Introduction Iris (/ˈaɪrɪs/), a name inspired by the Olympian mythological figure who personified the rainbow and served as the messenger of the gods, is a comprehensive observability platform for Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) jobs. Just as the mythological Iris connected the gods to humanity, our Iris platform bridges the gap between raw data and meaningful insights, […]

In the previous blog, we discussed how to securely access Azure Data Services from Azure Databricks using Virtual Network Service Endpoints or Private Link. Given a baseline of those best practices , in this article we walkthrough detailed steps on how to harden your Azure Databricks deployment from a network security perspective in order to […]

With the releases of Apache Spark 3.4 and 3.5 in 2023, we focused heavily on improving PySpark performance, flexibility, and ease of use. This blog post walks you through the key improvements. Here’s a rundown of some of the most important features added in Apache Spark 3.4 and 3.5 in 2023: Spark Connect introduces a […]

Databricks Runtime 14.3 includes a new capability that allows users to access and analyze Structured Streaming‘s internal state data: the State Reader API. The State Reader API sets itself apart from well-known Spark data formats such as JSON, CSV, Avro, and Protobuf. Its primary purpose is facilitating the development, debugging, and troubleshooting of stateful Structured […]

Introduction Let’s explore a common scenario – your team is eager to leverage open source LLMs to build chatbots for customer support interactions. As the model handles customer inquiries in production, it might go unnoticed that some inputs or outputs are potentially inappropriate or unsafe. And only in the midst of an internal audit—if you […]