The Databricks Data Engineer

By Jakub Lasak

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Episodes: 19

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Helping 18k+ Databricks data engineers become seniors: interview like seniors, execute like seniors, think like seniors.

Episode Date
Build the platform or use the platform: the two Databricks data engineer tracks nobody names
Aug 04, 2026
Why Unity Catalog exists: the Databricks governance chaos it was built to end
Jul 27, 2026
How to get credit for Databricks platform work without becoming the on-call martyr
Jul 20, 2026
Why Databricks Built Delta Lake When Parquet Was Already Good Enough
Jul 13, 2026
The Databricks pipeline that ran green for a year and was wrong the whole time
Jul 06, 2026
How Photon actually makes your Databricks queries faster (and when it silently doesn't)
Jun 29, 2026
The Databricks interview round nobody studies for (and almost everybody fails)
Jun 22, 2026
The Spark Shuffle is baggage claim: why your job waits instead of computes (and more workers won't fix it)
Jun 15, 2026
Your Databricks data quality framework is a Yeti: everyone talks about it, nobody has seen it work
Jun 08, 2026
Why senior Databricks engineers write less code than mid-level ones
Jun 02, 2026
4 habits that quietly turn your Databricks Delta Lake into a swamp
May 26, 2026
Liquid Clustering vs Z-Ordering: 4 questions that decide
May 18, 2026
The compounding curve: why some Databricks engineers' salaries grow 5x faster than others
May 11, 2026
The 90/9/1 rule of Databricks performance work - how to triage Spark optimization in 60 seconds
May 04, 2026
The Databricks data engineer in 2026 - the four shifts that just changed your job
Apr 27, 2026
9 Behaviors Quietly Killing Your Promotion To Senior Databricks Data Engineer
Apr 20, 2026
The Dashboard Theater: What Databricks Engineers Build That Nobody Opens
Apr 13, 2026
The Preparation Gap: What Interviewers Actually Evaluate in Databricks Data Engineers
Apr 06, 2026
The Invisible Engineer: Why Your Best Work Gets the Least Recognition
Mar 30, 2026