Databricks April Meetup

Come join us and Holly Smith for the next North East Databricks meet-up in The Catalyst, April 20th at 6pm!

We are extremely excited to welcome Holly Smith, a Senior Solutions Consultant at Databricks to our next meetup! She will be talking about the biggest of big data, and how a table ruined her life. The event is open to Databricks experts, people who are totally new to the platform, or anyone who is enthusiastic about data!

Talk Info:
Convert to Delta; how a table ruined my life: Working at Databricks I see the biggest of big data. And I thought I'd seen it all until I discovered a single table that was over half a petabyte, with 125,000 partitions, and not unsurprisingly, a few performance issues. Join me, as I descend into madness trying to optimise the biggest Delta table of my life. Together we'll go through what works, what doesn't work, smart hacks and upcoming changes in Databricks that will help you do this straight out of the box.

Holly Smith is a multi award winning Data & AI expert who has over a decade of experience working with Data & AI teams in a variety of capacities from individual contributors all the way up to leadership. She has spent the last four years at Databricks working with many multi national companies as they embark on their journey to the cutting edge of data. She also works with non profits through Datakind UK to advise on data strategy and bring data skills to social change organisations.

18:00 - 18:15 Welcome & Introduction
18:15 - 19:00 Holly Smith - Convert to Delta; how a table ruined my life
19:00 - 19:30 Networking, Food and Drinks
19:30 - 19:55 TBC
19:55 - 20:00 Close

About Us
If you need to contact us for any reason you can email us at: northeastdatabricks@gmail.com
We are sponsored by:

• Databricks
• Waterstons - an IT consultancy based in Durham. Helping you become more data-driven!
• The National Innovation Centre for Data (NICD)