Chapter 1: Creating an Azure Databricks Service

Azure Databricks is a high-performance Apache Spark-based platform that has been optimized for the Microsoft Azure cloud.

It offers two environments for building and developing data applications:

  • Azure Databricks Workspace: This provides an interactive workspace that enables collaboration between data engineers, data scientists, machine learning engineers, and business analysts.
  • Databricks SQL: This allows you to run ad hoc SQL queries on your data lake and supports multiple visualization types to explore your query results.

In this chapter, we will cover how to create an Azure Databricks service using the Azure portal, Azure CLI, and ARM templates. We will learn about different types of clusters ...

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