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August 27, 2026· 7 min readWhat is Databricks Governance Hub, and what does it actually do?One account-level screen for data health, AI usage, cost, and tags across your whole Databricks estate: what each page shows, how to turn it on, and what is coming next.Governance HubUnity CatalogData GovernanceAIRead
August 24, 2026· 10 min readHow I became a Databricks Partner Champion, and how you canThe program guide lists the steps. This is what they were like from the inside, and what mattered most in my case.CareerPartner ProgramChampionCertificationSolutions ArchitectRead
August 18, 2026· 8 min readWhat is Genie Ontology, and how does it actually work?Half of it is defined on purpose. The other half assembles itself from dashboards and queries you already have. When the two disagree, a score you cannot audit picks the winner.GenieUnity CatalogData GovernanceAIRead
August 16, 2026· 14 min readSpark Developer Associate: the cheat sheetEverything the Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark exam tests, on one page, in the order the official guide lists the domains.Apache SparkCertificationPySparkStructured StreamingRead
June 7, 2026· 7 min readYour data quality rules are the bottleneck. Here's where AI actually helps.Databricks gives you a strong engine for enforcing data quality. Writing and maintaining the rules is still manual toil. That gap is where AI earns its place.Data QualityGenAIMosaic AIData EngineeringRead