Technical articles on Databricks lakehouse engineering, data platform modernization, governance, Spark performance and production AI engineering.https://byteloomconsulting.com/insights/enhttps://byteloomconsulting.com/insights/enterprise-ai-observability-framework/https://byteloomconsulting.com/insights/enterprise-ai-observability-framework/A reference framework for observing LLM and RAG applications: signals, a Delta telemetry model, cost attribution, evaluation and governance on Databricks.Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI Engineeringai-observabilityllmragmlflowopentelemetryllm-evaluationdatabrickshttps://byteloomconsulting.com/insights/unity-catalog-enterprise-data-governance/https://byteloomconsulting.com/insights/unity-catalog-enterprise-data-governance/Designing Unity Catalog for an enterprise: catalogs, workspace binding, group-based grants, ABAC, lineage, grants as code and Hive metastore migration.Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTData Governanceunity-catalogdatabricksdata-governanceaccess-controlabacterraformhttps://byteloomconsulting.com/insights/migrating-legacy-etl-to-databricks/https://byteloomconsulting.com/insights/migrating-legacy-etl-to-databricks/Triage a Talend, Informatica or SSIS estate, design the lakehouse target, translate ETL semantics, and prove the result with a reconciliation framework.Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTData Engineeringdatabricksetl-migrationlakehousedata-validationdelta-lakelakeflowpysparkhttps://byteloomconsulting.com/insights/optimizing-databricks-compute-costs-spark-workloads/https://byteloomconsulting.com/insights/optimizing-databricks-compute-costs-spark-workloads/Attribute Databricks spend with system tables, choose compute per workload, tune Spark and Delta layout, and hold the savings with policies and reviews.Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTPerformance & Costdatabrickssparkcost-optimizationfinopsdelta-lakesystem-tables