Data+AI Summit articles

4-day workshop Β· In-person or online

What would it take for you to trust your Databricks pipelines in production?

A 3-day bug hunt on a 3-person team costs up to €7,200 in lost engineering time. This workshop teaches you to prevent that β€” unit tests, data tests, and integration tests for PySpark and Databricks Lakeflow, including Spark Declarative Pipelines.

Unit, data & integration tests
Medallion architecture & Lakeflow SDP
Max 10 participants Β· production-ready templates
See the full curriculum β†’ €7,000 flat fee Β· cohort of up to 10
Bartosz Konieczny
Bartosz
Konieczny

Data+AI Summit 2022 retrospective - part 1

There will be many "first times" in our lives. For me, the Data+AI Summit 2022 was the first time I've visited the USA, put the 3D dimensions to the pictures of my virtual friends and felt a huge community support in a very troubled moment. Besides, I also enjoyed the talks and walking, even though the latter one wasn't so good for my skin ;)

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Data+AI Summit 2022 retrospective - part 2

Yesterday I shared with you the human part of my Data+AI Summit. It's time now to give you my takeaways from the technical talks.

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Data+AI Summit 2023, retrospective part 1 - streaming

Even though you may be thinking now about Data+AI Summit 2024, I still owe you my retrospective for the 2023 edition. Let's start with the first part covering stream processing talks!

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Data+AI Summit 2023, retrospective part 2

One week later than initially announced, but here it is, the second part for Data+AI Summit 2023 retrospective. I don't know how, but I managed to include some streaming-related talks here too!

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Data+AI Summit 2024 - Retrospective - Streaming

Welcome to the first Data+AI Summit 2024 retrospective blog post. I'm opening the series with the topic close to my heart at the moment, stream processing!

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DAIS 2024: Testing framework from the Dataflow model for Apache Spark Structured Streaming

With this blog I'm starting a follow-up series for my Data+AI Summit 2024 talk. I missed this family of blog posts a lot as the previous DAIS with me as speaker was 4 years ago! As previously, this time too I'll be writing several blog posts that should help you remember the talk and also cover some of the topics left aside because of the time constraints.

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Data+AI Summit 2024 - Retrospective - Apache Spark

Welcome to the second blog post dedicated to the previous Data+AI Summit. This time I'm going to share with you a summary of Apache Spark talks.

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DAIS 2024: Orchestrating and scoping assertions in Apache Spark Structured Streaming

Testing batch jobs is not the same as testing streaming ones. Although the transformation (the WHAT from the previous article) is similar in both cases, more complete validation tests on the job logic are not. After all, streaming jobs often iteratively build the final outcome while the batch ones generate it in a single pass.

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