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.