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Databricks Cost Optimization Tools Compared
By Ian WhitestoneOct 22, 202610 min read

Databricks Cost Optimization Tools Compared

Compare Databricks cost optimization tools by write access, scope, and pricing, from Governance Hub and LakeSentry to Sedai, Unravel, Flexera, and SELECT.

Serverless SQL Warehouse Cost Optimization
By Ian WhitestoneOct 21, 20267 min read

Serverless SQL Warehouse Cost Optimization

Learn which SQL Warehouse setting to change first: auto-stop, size, max clusters, or Power BI mode, and how Serverless, Pro, and Classic compare.

Best Practices for Hosting Streamlit Dashboards in Snowflake
By Jeff SkoldbergOct 19, 202613 min read

Best Practices for Hosting Streamlit Dashboards in Snowflake

Learn how Streamlit in Snowflake is billed, why container runtime wins, how to suspend nightly to cut credits, and when it beats Power BI.

The State of Snowflake Cost Management in 2026 (Webinar Recap)
By Ian WhitestoneOct 7, 20269 min read

The State of Snowflake Cost Management in 2026 (Webinar Recap)

A recap of our Snowflake cost webinar with Ian Whitestone and Dave Lipowitz: new platform costs, AI spend risks, and how to find real savings.

Databricks Liquid Clustering Simplified
By Niall WoodwardSep 21, 20269 min read

Databricks Liquid Clustering Simplified

Databricks Liquid Clustering explained: how it beats ZORDER, picking the right clustering keys, migrating existing tables, and what OPTIMIZE really costs

What Is Databricks Genie, and Should You Be Using It? (Webinar Recap)
Sep 16, 2026

What Is Databricks Genie, and Should You Be Using It? (Webinar Recap)

"A recap of our Databricks Genie webinar: what Genie One, Agents, and Code actually do, what they cost, and how to keep that cost under control.

Snowflake DCM Projects: Infrastructure as Code, in Plain SQL
Sep 15, 2026

Snowflake DCM Projects: Infrastructure as Code, in Plain SQL

Snowflake DCM Projects explained: how DEFINE replaces CREATE, inherited grants vs future grants, bootstrapping ACCOUNTADMIN, and CI/CD with GitHub Actions

Databricks Agent Bricks: What It Is and How It Works in Production
Sep 14, 2026

Databricks Agent Bricks: What It Is and How It Works in Production

Databricks Agent Bricks explained: how it governs production AI agents, what you need to set it up, real use cases, and the AI costs it doesn't show you

An Engineer's Guide to Databricks Photon
Sep 10, 2026

An Engineer's Guide to Databricks Photon

Databricks Photon explained: the 2x DBU break-even math, which operators run natively, reading the query profile, and if it's actually saving you money

Databricks Lakebase? What Every Engineer Needs to Know
Sep 8, 2026

Databricks Lakebase? What Every Engineer Needs to Know

Databricks Lakebase explained: how the bidirectional Postgres sync works, autoscaling vs provisioned, what it won't give you, and what it really costs

Databricks Genie Pricing: What It Actually Costs to Run
Aug 27, 2026

Databricks Genie Pricing: What It Actually Costs to Run

Databricks Genie bills in two separate streams: LLM usage and the compute it triggers. We ran a real test to see what a Genie session actually costs.