Databricks' serverless database slashes app development from months to days as companies prep for agentic AI

The Lakebase service has been in development since June 2025 and is based on technology Databricks gained via its acquisition ...
GitHub

adil-faiyaz98/accelerated-spark-gpu

A demonstration of GPU acceleration benefits in Apache Spark workloads using NVIDIA RAPIDS. This project provides measurable performance improvements through real-world machine learning and data ...
InfoQ

Google BigQuery Adds SQL-Native Managed Inference for Hugging Face Models

Google has launched SQL-native managed inference for 180,000+ Hugging Face models in BigQuery. The preview release collapses the ML lifecycle into a unified SQL interface, eliminating the need for ...
GitHub

Data Engineering 2 - Modern Data Platforms: dbt, Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Spark

Take a look at the AIRBNB database/schemas/tables (you can use the Snowflake UI for this). Select 10 records from listings - review and understand the data. Select 10 records from hosts - review and ...