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September 21, 2026

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

September 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.

September 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

September 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

September 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

September 08, 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

August 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.

August 26, 2026

Databricks Genie Cost Optimization: How to Track and Control What It Triggers

Genie's AI usage is easy to track. The compute it triggers isn't. Here's how to make Genie's Databricks cost optimization attributable before the bill arrives.

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