I am pleased to share with you a new, improved way of developing for Azure Databricks from your IDE – Databricks Connect! Databricks Connect is a client library to run large scale Spark jobs on your Databricks cluster from anywhere you can import the library (Python, R, Scala, Java). It allows you to develop from your computer with your normal IDE features like auto complete, linting, and debugging. You can work in an IDE you are familiar with but have the Spark actions send out to the cluster, with no need to install Spark locally.
Apache Spark Introduction
This video we will quickly cover Apache Spark. The goal is to cover why use Spark and where it fits in the data ecosystem. If you want to just get hands on with Spark, check out one of my next videos on Spark and Databricks. Watch the video to get my overview of Spark and… Continue Reading