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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
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
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)
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
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)
"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
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
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
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
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
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.
