The Databricks Data Engineer
Hosted by JR Lasak · Jakub Lasak
5.0from 4 ratings
- 28
- Episodes
- 9
- Transcribed
- 4
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2026
- First episode
About The Databricks Data Engineer
Helping 18k+ Databricks data engineers become seniors: interview like seniors, execute like seniors, think like seniors.
- Publisher
- Jakub Lasak
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Mar 2026
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
9 of 28 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Data skew is a checkout line - how to unjam Databricks jobs without bigger clusters
28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why Databricks serverless exists, and which of your jobs should stay on classic clusters
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Data skew is a checkout line - how to unjam Databricks jobs without bigger clusters
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Your data got split into lines, one per task. And one line got a cart so heavy the whole store is waiting on it. Doubling the cluster opened more registers, but the other registers were already done. Another register doesn't help the one line that's actually stuck. If you heard the baggage claim episode, you got one scene of this. This is the whole episode, because the interesting part is why the cart can't just move to another line. It comes down to one rule the store can't break. One loyalty card, one line. When a join or a group buy shuffles on a key, Spark hashes that key, and every row with the same key lands in the same partition. […]
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