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September 15, 2026

Snowflake DCM Projects: Infrastructure as Code, in Plain SQL

Snowflake DCM Projects explained: how DEFINE replaces CREATE, inherited grants vs future grants, bootstrapping ACCOUNTADMIN, and CI/CD with GitHub Actions

September 14, 2026

Databricks Agent Bricks: What It Is and How It Works in Production

Databricks Agent Bricks explained: how it governs production AI agents, what you need to set it up, real use cases, and the AI costs it doesn't show you

September 10, 2026

An Engineer's Guide to Databricks Photon

Databricks Photon explained: the 2x DBU break-even math, which operators run natively, reading the query profile, and if it's actually saving you money

September 08, 2026

Databricks Lakebase? What Every Engineer Needs to Know

Databricks Lakebase explained: how the bidirectional Postgres sync works, autoscaling vs provisioned, what it won't give you, and what it really costs

August 27, 2026

Databricks Genie Pricing: What It Actually Costs to Run

Databricks Genie bills in two separate streams: LLM usage and the compute it triggers. We ran a real test to see what a Genie session actually costs.

August 26, 2026

Databricks Genie Cost Optimization: How to Track and Control What It Triggers

Genie's AI usage is easy to track. The compute it triggers isn't. Here's how to make Genie's Databricks cost optimization attributable before the bill arrives.

August 24, 2026

Databricks Genie Explained: What It Is and Which Tool to Use

Databricks Genie now spans four tools: Genie One, Genie Agents, Genie Code, and Genie Ontology. See what each does, what it costs, and which one to use first

July 27, 2026

Why the Databricks IPO Delay Signals AI Infrastructure Has Arrived

Why Databricks keeps delaying its IPO in 2026: a 165 billion to 175 billion valuation, 80 percent revenue growth, and what it means for AI infrastructure

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