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🔍 Unity Catalog in Action: Querying the Bronze, Silver, and Gold Layers
We built the layers. We built the pipeline. Now it’s time to actually see the output —and make sure it’s governed, queryable, and ready...
Josh Adkins
Jul 71 min read


⚙️ Unity Catalog: Creating the Silver Layer in Databricks with Python
What happens when your raw data doesn’t meet expectations? You filter. You clean. You level up. And sometimes, you drop 20,000 records...
Josh Adkins
Jun 231 min read


🪵 Unity Catalog: Building the Bronze Layer in Python
Raw data is messy. But how you ingest it sets the tone for everything downstream. In this week’s video, I walk you through creating the...
Josh Adkins
Jun 161 min read


⚙️ Unity Catalog: What is it?
Data chaos doesn’t scale. Lack of governance kills velocity. That’s where Unity Catalog comes in. In this week’s cloud engineering...
Josh Adkins
Jun 91 min read


🚀 Automating Data Pipelines in Databricks – Delta Live Pipeline Setup
In this week’s cloud engineering series video, I walk you through the process of setting up a Delta Live Pipeline in Databricks to...
Josh Adkins
Jun 41 min read


📊 Building the Final Reporting Layer in Databricks – Gold Table Creation 🌟
In this week’s cloud engineering series video, we’re finalizing our Gold Table in Databricks, the essential layer for reporting and...
Josh Adkins
Jun 21 min read


⚙️Create your very own logging table
In this week’s cloud engineering series video, we’re diving into error handling with an Error Logging Table in Databricks. Here’s why...
Josh Adkins
Jun 21 min read


🪙 Transforming Data in Databricks – Silver Table Creation with Constraints ⚙️
In this week’s cloud engineering series video, we take the Bronze table from last week and evolve it into a refined Silver table using...
Josh Adkins
Jun 21 min read


🥉 Building the Bronze Table in Hive Metastore – Your First Layer of the Medallion 🛠️
In this week’s cloud engineering series video, we start our journey through the Medallion Architecture using Hive Metastore by building...
Josh Adkins
Jun 21 min read


🧪 Creating a Table from Scratch in Databricks – Fast & Simple 💡
In this week’s cloud engineering series video, I show you how to quickly create a table from scratch using some lightweight, fake...
Josh Adkins
Jun 21 min read


⚙️ Databricks Compute – The Fuel That Powers Your Workloads 🚗💨
In this week’s cloud engineering series video, I walk you through the process of creating compute in Databricks—the essential engine that...
Josh Adkins
Jun 21 min read


🔍 Unity Catalog vs Hive Metastore – What’s the Difference? ☁️
Kicking off my new cloud engineering series with a deep dive into Databricks metadata management. In this first video, I explain the key...
Josh Adkins
Jun 21 min read
🚀 Exciting News – Weekly Cloud Engineering Series Launching! ☁️
I’m thrilled to announce the launch of a new weekly series where I’ll be diving deep into the world of cloud data engineering—sharing...
Josh Adkins
Jun 21 min read
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