Medallion architecture on Databricks: what actually matters

<p>Most Snowflake-to-Databricks migrations get sold on cost and delivered on something else. The credit line item is what gets the project funded, but the teams that finish happy

<h2> TL;DR </h2> <ul> <li>Cloud data warehouses trap you with hidden fees: the Scan Tax (charging per terabyte scanned), the Idle Tax (60-second minimums for inactive compute),

<p>Both promise your business users can simply ask the warehouse a question.</p> <p>Both quietly require someone to hand-curate the context before that works.</p> <h2> Having run

<p>"Explain the Databricks architecture" is one of the most common data engineering questions. Here is the answer as a picture, built up layer by layer.</p> <h2> 1. It starts with

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