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Databricks-native MDM

Databricks-Native MDM: Introducing Golden Lake for Entity Resolution

Golden Lake is Entrada’s Databricks-native MDM and entity resolution accelerator, built to resolve your most valuable entities without ever moving data out of Unity Catalog. Master Data Management (MDM) is a constant source of tension for data-driven organizations. There is a crucial need to obtain a unified, 360-degree perspective of core entities within their data, […]

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Databricks semantic layer best practices for Genie Agent accuracy

Databricks Semantic Layer: 10 Proven AI Agent Practices

Best practices for Databricks semantic layers, ontologies, and Unity Catalog glossaries.

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Modern AI platform architecture showing the Databricks Lakehouse as the unified data and AI foundation

The Future of AI Platforms: Where Databricks Fits

AI platforms are converging and fragmenting at the same time. A practitioner’s map of the modern AI stack – and where Databricks genuinely fits.

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The Architecture Tax: Why Your ML Models Cost More Than They Should

Poor ML architecture quietly drains budgets through retraining churn, drift, and shadow infrastructure. Here’s how to spot and fix it on Databricks.

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Genie App Builder

Genie App Builder: Fast, Governed AI Apps on Databricks

Vibe-coding promises a working app in hours, but most of those apps hit the same wall: they’re disconnected from real business data, ungoverned, and expensive to run. Databricks’ new Genie App Builder, App Spaces, and Serverless Micro Apps are built to fix that, without slowing teams back down.

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Genie Code

Beyond Autocomplete: How Databricks Genie Code Turns Data Work into Governed Agentic Workflows

Most AI coding assistants treat code as the end product. In data platforms, code is just the interface, and Genie Code’s real advantage is reasoning across the governed tables, lineage, and pipelines behind it.

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Genie versus Power BI

Databricks Genie vs Power BI and Tableau: Should You Add It, Replace, or Ignore?

Every conversation with a CIO this year ends the same way: “Do we still need Power BI if we have Databricks Genie?” The honest answer is more interesting than yes or no. Here is what I tell clients before they rip out a working BI stack.

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Databricks ML pipeline performance optimization diagram showing data flow and cost efficiency

Why Your Databricks ML Pipelines Are Burning Cash (And How to Fix Them)

Most Databricks ML pipelines do not fail because the math is wrong. They fail because performance decisions made early quietly compound until cost, latency, and trust all start slipping at once.

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Entering the Agent Era: Data + AI Summit 2026 Reflection

Data + AI Summit 2026 brought the Entrada team back to San Francisco alongside more than 31,000 members of the data and AI community. As a pure-play Databricks partner, being there felt like standing at the epicenter of the next chapter of enterprise AI. A Few Proud Moments for the Entrada Team The Data + […]

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Abstract data visualization showing a businessman interacting with a holographic stock chart, candlestick graphs, and financial KPI icons emerging from a tablet — symbolizing modern data architecture and AI-driven analytics on the Databricks Lakehouse.

The “Agent-Ready” Lakehouse: Bridging Data Modeling and Agentic AI

For most of the last decade, the goal of a data platform was simple: make the data available. Land it, govern it, and let the humans take it from there. That goal is no longer enough. In 2026, the consumer of your enterprise data is increasingly likely to be something other than a human. It […]

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