Category: Engineering

Every morning Susan walks straight into a storm of messages, and doesn’t know where to start! Susan is a customer success specialist at a global retailer, and her primary objective is to ensure customers are happy and receive personalised service whenever they encounter issues. Overnight the company receives hundreds of reviews and feedback across multiple […]

As organizations are maturing their data infrastructure and accumulating more data than ever before in their data lakes, Open and Reliable table formats such as Delta Lake become a critical necessity. Thousands of companies are already using Delta Lake in production, and open-sourcing all of Delta Lake (as announced in June 2022) has further increased […]

This blog was co-authored by Elia Florio, Sr. Director of Detection & Response at Databricks and Florian Roth and Marius Bartholdy, security researchers with SEC-Consult.   Protecting the Databricks platform and continuously raising the bar with security improvements is the mission of our Security team and the main reason why we invest in our bug […]

The Flink framework has gained popularity as a real-time stateful stream processing solution for distributed stream and batch data processing. Flink also provides data distribution, communication, and fault tolerance for distributed computations over data streams. To fully leverage Flink’s features, Coban, Grab’s real-time data platform team, has adopted Flink as part of our service offerings. In […]

Introduction Often, ecommerce marketplaces provide buyers with listings similar to those previously visited by the buyer, as well as a personalized shopping experience based on profiles, past shopping histories and behavior signals such as clicks, views and additions to cart. These are vital to the shopping experience, and so it’s equally vital that we continuously […]

Generative AI has been taking the world by storm. As the data and AI company, we have been on this journey with the release of the open source large language model Dolly, as well as the internally crowdsourced dataset licensed for research and commercial use that we used to fine-tune it, the databricks-dolly-15k. Both the […]

One of the major imperatives of organizations today is to enable decision making at the speed of business. Business teams and autonomous decisioning systems often require all the information they need to make decisions and respond quickly as soon as their source events happen – in real time or near real time. Such information, known […]

Background and Motives Deep Learning algorithms are complex and time consuming to train, but are quickly moving from the lab to production because of the value these algorithms help realize. Whether using pre-trained models with fine tuning, building a network from scratch or anything in between, the memory and computational load of training can quickly […]

Last year Spark Connect was introduced at the Data and AI Summit. As part of the recently released Apache SparkTM 3.4, Spark Connect is now generally available. We have also recently re-architected Databricks Connect to be based on Spark Connect. This blog post walks through what Spark Connect is, how it works, and how to […]

Since 2016, Grab has been using GrabChat, a built-in messaging feature to connect our users with delivery-partners or driver-partners. However, as the Grab superapp grew to include more features, the limitations of the old system became apparent. GrabChat could only handle two-party chats because that’s what it was designed to do. To make our messaging […]