Azure Databricks (documentation and user guide) was announced at Microsoft Connect, and with this post I’ll try to explain its use case. At a high level, think of it as a tool for curating and processing massive amounts of data and … Continue reading →
Microsoft Connect(); is a developer event from Nov 15-17, where plenty of announcements are made. Here is a summary of the data platform related announcements: Azure Databricks: In preview, this is a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark based analytics platform optimized … Continue reading →
Better late than never: The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), released an appliance update (AU6) about a year ago, and I missed the announcement. Below is what is new in this release, also called … Continue reading →