Data Eng Articles

Data Engineering•2026-04-01

41 min read

Announcing the 2026 Built-On Databricks Startup Challenge

Databricks announces the 2026 Built-On Databricks Startup Challenge, a global competition for early-stage B2B startups building on the Databricks platform with over $1 million in prizes.

Data Engineering•2026-03-27

Protect Performance and Reduce Surprise Costs with Default Warehouse

Databricks SQL introduces Default Warehouse, a generally available feature allowing admins to control which SQL warehouse is automatically selected for ad hoc queries.

Data Engineering•2026-03-26

What’s new with Google Data Cloud

Google Data Cloud recaps weekly product updates spanning databases, analytics, and AI integrations from January to March 2026.

Databases

Business Intelligence

Data Analytics

21 min read

Fizz accelerates ecommerce analytics with Databricks SQL

Fizz.hu, a fast-growing Hungarian ecommerce marketplace, migrated from Microsoft SQL Server to Databricks SQL lakehouse architecture in just three months.

Customers

41 min read

Building an A/B testing analysis framework for mobile gaming on Databricks

This article describes how HARDlight built a Databricks-native A/B testing analysis framework to automate and standardize mobile game experimentation at scale.

Beyond A/B Testing: Using Surrogacy and Region-Splits to Measure Long-Term Effects in Marketplaces

This article presents Lyft's two-step methodology for estimating long-term market-mediated effects of marketplace policy changes using a surrogacy and region-split approach.

61 min read

What Are Analytic Applications?

This article explains what analytic applications are, how they work, and how they differ from traditional BI tools.

Data + AI Foundations

31 min read

How Databricks Helps Baseball Teams Gain an Edge with Data & AI

This post describes how baseball teams use Databricks to convert high-fidelity pitch data into game decisions through AI agents and a governed data lakehouse.

Industries

Media & Entertainment

31 min read

Databricks recognized as a Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Analytics and BI

Databricks has been recognized as a Customers' Choice in the Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms.

Stop Hand-Coding Change Data Capture Pipelines

This post introduces AutoCDC in Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines as a declarative alternative to hand-coded Change Data Capture and Slowly Changing Dimension pipelines.

Platform

11 min read