Scaling for MHHS: how Octopus Energy achieved a 50x cost reduction in margin data engineering
Summary
Octopus Energy achieved a 50x cost reduction in their margin data engineering pipelines by re-architecting on Databricks for UK MHHS regulation. They leveraged Delta Lake Change Data Feed and Databricks Serverless to process 48x more data at a fraction of the original cost, improving freshness from weekly to daily.
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