September 2025
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
11h 34m
English
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Chapter 4. Unity Catalog and Compute
“Technology; The Multi-User Computers” is an article in the New York Times’s print edition on August 23, 1984. A quote from the article from James S. Campbell, chairman of Fortune Systems: “Until now, the world has not really believed in Unix and multi-user systems. Now it will.”
Fast forward to 2006, when AWS announced the first cloud platform by introducing S3, closely followed by Elastic Cloud Compute, which became the backbone of many modern cloud-based applications. 2008 saw the launch of Google Cloud and the release of its App Engine. The same year, Microsoft announced its cloud computing operating system, Windows Azure. Advancements in cloud computing have since pushed data platforms forward to the cloud, and today, all major data processing platforms are cloud native, and Databricks is no exception.
When you entrust your most valuable and sensitive data to cloud platforms, extending that trust to the cloud-based data processing platforms that help you unlock its full potential is essential. Trust builds when you understand the governance standards implemented in the data platform. This chapter aims to further strengthen your trust in the Databricks platform when using Unity Catalog for your governance needs.
At Nexa Boutique, data governance is a top priority, and it played a central role in the decision-making process when selecting Unity Catalog as the governance solution for its Data Intelligence Platform. The data architects at ...
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