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July 15, 2025

10 Lessons from 10 Years as a Founder

Blue Orange Digital’s 10th Anniversary Ten years ago, I spun the firm out of the sale of my last…
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June 11, 2025

Databricks Data + AI Summit 2025 Announcements

Databricks made a series of significant product and feature announcements during its Data + AI…
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June 17, 2025

Snowflake Summit 2025: AI, Acceleration, and a Lot of Inspiration

The message at Snowflake Summit 2025 was clear the future of data is here, and it’s infused with…

May 30, 2025

SAP Sapphire 2025 Recap: Scaling Smart with SAP’s Business Data Cloud & the Databricks Advantage

SAP Sapphire 2025 delivered a clear message: SAP is evolving into a business transformation engine,…

June 2, 2025

Snowflake AI in 2025: Making Enterprise AI Simple, Secure, and Impactful

Introduction AI adoption is no longer a future ambition — it’s a present-day necessity. In…
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May 29, 2025

From Weeks to Seconds: How Databricks AI/BI Eliminates the Analytics Bottleneck

The 30-Second Question That Takes 30 Days to Answer Picture this: It’s Monday morning, and…

Blogs from Medium

Unified AI Workflows: Accelerating End-to-End GenAI Projects with Databricks

Unified AI Workflows: Accelerating End-to-End GenAI Projects with Databricks

Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly transforming industries, promising unprecedented innovation and efficiency. However, building and deploying robust, production-grade GenAI applications can be a complex, multi-stage endeavor. Databricks, with its unified Data Intelligence Platform, is emerging as a key enabler, significantly accelerating end-to-end GenAI projects. By providing a cohesive environment for data management, model development, deployment, and governance, Databricks empowers organizations to move from initial concept to tangible business value at an accelerated pace.The jou...
Snowflake AI in 2025: Making Enterprise AI Simple, Secure, and Impactful

Snowflake AI in 2025: Making Enterprise AI Simple, Secure, and Impactful

IntroductionAI adoption is no longer a future ambition — it’s a present-day necessity. In 2025, Snowflake has taken bold steps to make artificial intelligence (AI) practical for everyday business. Whether you’re a business analyst, team lead, or executive, these enhancements make it easier to use AI safely, efficiently, and with measurable value.This article walks through:Snowflake’s newest AI tools like Cortex and Document AIReal-lif...
The Power of Combining Snowflake and Apache Iceberg

The Power of Combining Snowflake and Apache Iceberg

In today’s fast-paced, data-driven landscape, organizations constantly seek cutting-edge solutions to optimize their data management and analytics workflows. The synergistic integration of Snowflake, the renowned cloud data warehousing platform, and Apache Iceberg, the innovative open table format, marks a significant leap forward in this pursuit. This blog post delves into this powerful combination's compelling advantages and technical nuances, offering insights for technical e...
Databricks + Apache Iceberg + Delta Lake: A Strategic Advantage for Modern Data Platforms

Databricks + Apache Iceberg + Delta Lake: A Strategic Advantage for Modern Data Platforms

In the ever-evolving data landscape, enterprises are facing a critical decision: how to support scalable, cost-effective data architectures that remain interoperable and future-proof. Databricks has emerged as a leader in this space by supporting both Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg, two of the most powerful open table formats today. This dual support isn’t just a technical checkbox; it’s a strategic advantage.In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore why supporting both Iceberg and Delta creates significant competitive advantages. We’ll exami...
Automating Data Quality: How Databricks Delta Live Tables Simplifies ETL and Ensures Reliability

Automating Data Quality: How Databricks Delta Live Tables Simplifies ETL and Ensures Reliability

IntroductionIn modern data platforms, building and maintaining reliable ETL pipelines is a significant engineering challenge. Legacy approaches typically involve manual orchestration, custom quality checks, and extensive operational overhead.Delta Live Tables (DLT) offers a declarative framework that simplifies pipeline development, automates operational complexity, and embeds data quality directly into the transformation process.This article discusses the technical ar...
Apache Iceberg in Action: A PySpark Example with Google Colab

Apache Iceberg in Action: A PySpark Example with Google Colab

In the rapidly evolving landscape of big data, organizations struggle with efficiently managing large-scale data lakes. Traditional file-based approaches often lead to consistency issues, poor query performance, and complex data management. Enter Apache Iceberg, an open table format designed to solve these challenges.What is Apache Iceberg?Apache Iceberg is an open-source table format for massive analytic datasets. Developed originally at Netflix and later donated to t...
Data Visualization with Databricks Series — Article #3, Storytelling: Go Beyond Showing Data —…

Data Visualization with Databricks Series — Article #3, Storytelling: Go Beyond Showing Data —…

Data Visualization with Databricks Series — Article #3, Storytelling: Go Beyond Showing Data — Tell a Story With It!Image source: UX IndonesiaMy two previous articles in this series — ...
Azure Container Apps

Azure Container Apps

IntroductionContainer technology has reshaped the way organizations build, run, and manage applications. Containerized solutions allow teams to develop highly scalable, consistent, and efficient microservices — a major game-changer for modern software delivery pipelines. Azure Container Apps (ACA) offers a fully managed, serverless experience that lets you reap the benefits of container architectures without wrestling with the complexities of Kubernetes.I have worked with our clients at Blue Orange Digital on designing, deployi...
AWS re:Invent 2024 — reflections for cloud watchers

AWS re:Invent 2024 — reflections for cloud watchers

AWS re:Invent 2024 — reflections for cloud watchersClosing down on 2024, this year we saw the rise of independent players applying Artificial Intelligence to disrupt workplace productivity with projects like Cursor or Perplexity, and we saw the rise of projects disrupting the foundation models arena from projects like Anthropic or Mistral — all of this powered by advancements in access to compute and software abstractions.We also saw the cloud giants refine ...
Insights and Innovations from Microsoft Ignite 2024

Insights and Innovations from Microsoft Ignite 2024

Ignite conference introduction in black and white charcoal.Did you know? Businesses using GenAI (GenAI) are already achieving a $3.70 ROI for every $1 invested, with industries like financial services and retail leading the way. This is one of the insights shared at this year’s Microsoft Ignite conference, which took place last week with over 200,000 registered partici...

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