KYC - Know (Y)our Customer(s)
Look to your left, look to your right: your fellow Bricksters
Databricks history: brick by brick
Unnecessarily detailed Databricks tech knowledge
Keeping it short: Three-letter abbreviations
Know Your Enemy
100
The only Backbone company that has an animal as its logo.
What is Lufthansa?
100
This Backbone team member shares his first name with a Databricks co-founder.
Who is Ali?
100
This is the letter denoting Databrick’s latest funding round.
What is K?
100
This is the number of separate Databricks variants counted by having their own docs instance.
What is 4?
100
DBU
What is Databricks Unit?
100
This company owns the Streamlit data app framework.
What is Snowflake?
200
This company recently appointed its first female CEO to “turn the ship around”.
What is Deutsche Bahn?
200
This CEMEA Brickster legend has provided more than 3,000 answers on Stackoverflow.
Who is Alex Ott?
200
This is the year in which SQL endpoints were first introduced into general availability.
What is 2021?
200
This is the name of the first LLM trained by Databricks?
What is Dolly?
200
CMK
What is Customer-Managed Key?
200
When the captain on your flight goes to the bathroom, this competitor product takes the wheel.
What is Microsoft Copilot?
300
This company is one of the nation’s largest landlords.
What is Deutsche Bahn?
300
This Backbone Brickster used to work as a Partner Solutions Architect.
Who is Volker?
300
This was Databrick’s most expensive acquisition based on public reporting.
What is Tabular?
300
This is the latest version of the Databricks runtime.
What is 17.3 LTS?
300
CDF
What is Change Data Feed?
300
This domain-specific language shares its name with the German stock market index.
What is Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)?
400
This company, which is not Lufthansa, operated a holiday airline between 1972 to 2007.
What is Hapag-Lloyd?
400
This Brickster is known for LinkedIn beef and passionate (hot) takes on social media.
Who is Franco Pattano?
400
This is Ali Ghodsi’s boss.
Who is Ion Stoica?
400
This industry standard benchmark dataset is used by companies like Databricks and Snowflake to demonstrate data warehousing performance.
What is TPC-H?
400
AQE
What is Adaptive Query Execution?
400
This competitor product is less than two and it’s wet.
What is OneLake?
500
In 2002, this company underwent a major rebranding and switched to a color psychologically associated with speed.
What is DHL?
500
This oldschool Brickster will not only collect his IPO check from Databricks, but also from Perplexity.
Who is Andy Konwinski?
500
This is the name of the latest acquisition of Databricks.
What is Mooncake Labs?
500
Out of the open-source LLMs available on Databricks, this is the one with the highest numbers of parameters.
Meta Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
500
SDP
What is Spark Declarative Pipelines?
500
This competitor is quite sticky.
What is AWS Glue?
